Author: Manjusha Nambiar

Practice Dialogues | Spoken English Course

Practice dialogues are a great way to improve your English speaking skills. When you listen to a conversation you familiarize yourself with useful conversational structures and vocabulary. Here is a piece of conversation between...

Common Animal Idioms

Here is a list of some common animal idioms with their meanings and example sentences. Act as a guinea pig When you act as a guinea pig, you allow some kind of experiment to...

Building Idioms In English

Here is a list of idioms based on buildings. Each idiom is followed by its meaning / definition. Example sentences are also given. An ivory tower An ivory tower is a place of privileged...

Bottom Line | English Idioms

In normal usage, the term bottom line refers to the final outcome or result. It can also be used to mean the ultimate truth in a given situation. • You don’t have to show...

Boss Around | English Idioms

To boss somebody around is to give them orders although you don’t necessarily have the authority to do so. I don’t like her. She is always bossing me around. My brother is younger than...

Blow Something Out Of Proportion

To blow something out of proportion is to report it in an exaggerated manner, often making it sound worse than it really is. Don’t believe everything that you read in the papers. They are...