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Idioms

Idioms. An idiom is a figurative language technique that does not mean what is being said. Figurative Language. What does it mean?. Mrs. Haythorn. Hidden Meanings. Idiom . Literal Meaning. You’d better hold your tongue and button your lip.

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Idioms

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  1. Idioms An idiom is a figurative language technique that does not mean what is being said.

  2. Figurative Language What does it mean? Mrs. Haythorn

  3. Hidden Meanings Idiom Literal Meaning • You’d better hold your tongue and button your lip. • The students are going bananas! • He’s feeling blue today. • You need to be quiet. SHHH! • The students are very restless • He’s feeling sad.

  4. You catch more flies with honey……

  5. The Punny Pages Pun: A play on words designed to make the listener/ reader laugh. Joke: A brief story, which, told in a certain way, gets a laugh. Palindrome: A word or a phrase or a sentence that reads the same way forward and backward.

  6. A Punny Story Two boil weevils grew up in Georgia. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils.

  7. Palindromes • poprotatorrepaperracecarredividerkayakcivicradarlevel • Did Hannah say as Hannah did? Was it a car or a cat I saw?

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