VIP Class Notes (Samara)

Common Idioms, making our own idioms with her vocabulary, finding equivalent Chinese and English idioms.
https://www.ef.edu/english-resources/english-idioms/

Vocabulary

simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).

Gullible: easy to trick, fool.

Grammar

All roads lead to Rome – all life paths lead to the same place

There is more than one way to skin a cat.  – there is more than one way to do something.

No pain, no gain:
Beauty is pain: There is no beauty without pain.
Beauty always easy to suffer early: Looks don’t last forever. 
You can say that again: I agree with you.
Cutting corners: cheating, leaving something unfinished. Cutting edge: The newest and best of the industry.
Bite the bullet: Deal with the difficulty.
Beat around the bush: to avoid talking about the issue.