English Idioms 01

Language is very interesting, I especially love how we can use a sentences to represent something that doesn't have anything to do with the word itself, like an idiom.

What is idiom? Wiki says that:

An idiom (Latin: idioma, "special property", f. Greek: ἰδίωμα – idiōma, "special feature, special phrasing", f. Greek: ἴδιος – idios, "one’s own") is a combination of words that have a figurative meaning owing to its common usage. An idiom's figurative meaning is separate from the literal meaning. There are thousands of idioms and they occur frequently in all languages. There are estimated to be at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language.

Just like how I love chéngyǔ 成语 in Mandarin language, I also love idiom in English language.

Let's see some English idioms, their definition, and how to use it in our daily life..

Myth or Fact [Friday the 13th]

Last night I get to sleep late because of reading. I think I'm going to sleep at one past thirty in the morning. I'm used to sleep in the dark, so I turn off my lamp and go to my bed. When I'm looking at my bed, I see a shape of something, because it's dark, I can't be sure if my eyes are fooling me or there's something in my bed, or whatever. On top of that the book I read before going to sleep is a bit psychology-horror, so imagine my feeling when I see that lumpy dark shape in my bed.. *shiver*

So I just close my eyes, get up to my bed and use a blanket to cover my body up to my neck. In my minds eye I keep seeing scary thing looking down at me from beside my bed, and I'm trying my best to fall asleep. It's hard with this scary thought running around my head, and somehow it sprang to my head that today is Friday the 13th! Not that I believe superstition thing, and Friday the 13th is available at every month that start with Sunday. But scary thing is scary, and our mind is the scariest place to be when we think of scary things. I don't make any sense am I? Well, you know how it is, I'm sure.. :D