Idiom: a penny for your thoughs

A penny for your thoughts: opinion on something, but contrary to the other expression, ‘two cents’ doesn’t necessarily need to be a welcomed opinion. So it means you are giving it regardless of people asking or not.

A penny for your thoughts is a comment you make when you want someone else’s opinion. Perhaps the person doesn’t want to contribute to ideas or is simply shy. It’s a way to motivate someone to participate. In both examples, the characters have to say it for their collegue and wife’s opinion to be expressed. 

Idiom: past her prime

                     

  Past her prime

The Guardian: The first woman governor in Tokio

(.....) Last week Shintaro Ishihara, 83, another former Tokyo governor not renowned for his tact, called her “a caked-up old woman well past her prime”.

Idiom: past her prime

1.- Something-is-past-its-prime

The Guardian: The first woman governor in Tokio

(.....) Last week Shintaro Ishihara, 83, another former Tokyo governor not renowned for his tact, called her “a caked-up old woman well past her prime”.

something-is-past-its-prime

Google+To Rush to any rash conclusions

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Rash conclusion: conclusión precipitada

Simple Definition of rash

• : done or made quickly and without thought about what will happen as a result

English Idioms

A year ago we were talking about this:

English Idioms

Idiom: to lose own's train of thoughts

lose+train+of+thought

Idiom: past her prime

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Tokyo elects first female governor

The Guardian: The first woman governor in Tokio

(.....) Last week Shintaro Ishihara, 83, another former Tokyo governor not renowned for his tact, called her “a caked-up old woman well past her prime”.

Idioms in English: to draw a blank

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Learning English: get your act together. Idioms

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Learning English. Idioms: a basquet case

a basket case

1. (informal) someone who is crazy and unable to organize their life She'll never get a job. She's a basket case.

2. a very poor country which needs economic help from other countries, or a business that is in a very bad financial situation Twenty years ago the country was an economic basket case.

See also: basket, case

Resources to learn English. Idioms: to be second to none

http://context.reverso.net/traduccion/ingles-espanol/second+to+none

Meaning: to be the best.

Idioms: GIVE SOMEONE THEIR MARCHING ORDERS

If you give someone their marching orders, you ask them to leave a place or fire them from a job.

The Idiom Connection

The Idiom Connection

Idioms: "Flash in the pan"

What does the idiom “Flash in the Pan” mean?

Definition:

A one-time occurrence, not a permanent phenomenon

For example:

“Some believed that Donald Trump’s popularity was a flash in the pan; others thought he would have a more lasting impact.”

Notes:

This idiom comes from an old expression about exploding gunpowder.

Source: slang fuente. com

Idiom: slip your mind

slip your mind

If something slips your mind, you forget it:
I'm sorry I forgot your birthday - it just slipped my mind.

                 

The Idiom Connection

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Listening: five idioms with the word down

         Five idioms with the word down

To live high on the hog

                To live high on the hog

To be on the fritz

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To have a hanckering for

hanker

 (ˈhӕŋkə) verb

(with after or for) to want (something). He was hankering after the bright lights of the city.anhelar,desear, ansiar

have a hankering for

I have a hankering for a strawberry ice-cream.anhelo, ansia

Joseph Conrad: Chapter 1

"Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, `When I grow up I will go there.' The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven't been there yet, and shall not try now. The glamour's off. Other places were scattered about the Equator, and in every sort of latitude all over the two hemispheres. I have been in some of them, and . . . well, we won't talk about that. But there was one yet--the biggest, the most blank, so to speak-- that I had a hankering after.

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"True, by this time it was not a blank space any more. It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names. It had ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery--a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over. It had become a place of darkness. But there was in it one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land. And as I looked at the map of it in a shop-window, it fascinated me as a snake would a bird-- a silly little bird. Then I remembered there was a big concern, a Company for trade on that river. Dash it all! I thought to myself, they can't trade without using some kind of craft on that lot of fresh water--steamboats! Why shouldn't I try to get charge of one? I went on along Fleet Street, but could not shake off the idea. The snake had charmed me. "You understand it was a Continental concern, that Trading society; but I have a lot of relations living on the Continent, because it's cheap and not so nasty as it looks, they say. "I am sorry to own I began to worry them. This was already a fresh departure for me. I was not used to get things that way, you know. I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go. I wouldn't have believed it of myself; but, then--you see--I felt somehow I must get there by hook or by crook. So I worried them. The men said `My dear fellow,' and did nothing. Then--would you believe it?--I tried the women. I, Charlie Marlow, set the women to work-- to get a job. Heavens! Well, you see, the notion drove me. I had an aunt, a dear enthusiastic soul. She wrote: `It will be delightful. I am ready to do anything, anything for you. It is a glorious idea. I know the wife of a very high personage in the Administration, and also a man who has lots of influence with,' &c., &c. She was determined to make no end of fuss to get me appointed skipper of a river steamboat, if such was my fancy.