Dee’s English Lessons

Introducing English Riddles and Jokes as a way to improve English language skills. Example of a joke: Student standing on a lost dollar bill who goes late to class. Example of a riddle: A bank that has no money in it = a river bank.

End of the series on English expressions: Review of the main themes, differences between English idioms and English Expressions. English Expressions as a public speaking skill. Introducing the next episode about jokes in English.

English expressions: Theme: Perfections and imperfections: 1. Practice makes perfect. 2. If you try and fail try again. 3. If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail. 4. If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. 5. Nobody is perfect.

English expressions relating to life sacrifices and smart decisions: 1. Two wrongs don't make a right. 2. The pen is mightier than the sword. 3. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. 4. There is no such thing as a free lunch. 5. You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.

English Expressions: Examples of expressions relating to friendship and best friends: 1. A friend to all is a friend to none. 2. False friends are worse than open enemies. 3. Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. 4. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. 5. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

English expressions: Sayings about hope from some great people: 1. However long the night, the dawn will break. 2. The darkest hours are just before dawn. 3. where there's life, there's hope. 4. Only in the darkness can you see the stars. 5. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

English expressions: Sayings about caution: Examples: 1. Be careful what you wish for. 2. Eggs have no business dancing with stones.3. People who live in glass houses don't throw stones. 4. If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.

English Sayings: Sayings about caution, prudence, carefulness. 1. Look before you leap. 2. Measure a thousand times, cut once. 3. Penny wise, pound foolish. 4. The honey is sweet but the bee has a sting. 

English expressions: Sayings about success: 1. Determination is the key to success. 2. Practice makes perfect. 3. As you make your bed so shall you lie on it. 4. You reap what you sow. 

English Expressions: Sayings that have to do with teamwork and unity: 1. United we stand, divided we fall. 2. Unity is strength. 3. Many hands make light work. 4. One hand cannot tie a bundle. 5. The more the merrier.

English proverbs: 1. A wolf in sheep skin. 2. A green snake in the green grass. 3. A beautiful apple but rotten inside. 

English Proverbs: 1. Don't judge a book by its cover. 2. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Introducing a new series: English sayings / expressions / proverbs. What are the differences between idioms and proverbs? Examples.

English idioms: Focus on School Idioms: Examples: To be of the old school. A school of thought. To teach someone a lesson. To learn a lesson. A teacher's pet.

English idioms: Love idioms: Examples discussed: Puppy love. Blind date. Love at first sight. To fall for someone. To break up.

English Idioms: Category: Water idioms. Examples: To be in deep water / To be in hot water. To feel like a fish out of the water. To test the waters. To keep one's head above water. My mouth waters. 

English idioms: Number idioms: Case studies: Back to square one / One in a million / The number one / 101.

English idioms: Weather idioms. 4 case studies: To feel under the weather / A storm in a teacup / To chase rainbows / a cold day in hell.

English idioms: Parts of the body idioms: 4 case studies: To get cold feet. To give someone a cold shoulder. Get of my back. Something to cost an arm an a leg.

English idioms: Color idioms: Examples: Once in a blue moon. The green light.  A red flag.

English idioms: Fruit idioms: Case study: Cherry. To cherry pick something. The cherry on the cake.

English idioms: Fruit idioms: Case studies: A bad apple. Comparing apples and oranges. The apple of one's eye.

English Idioms: Birds in idioms: Case study: The goose: 1. "To have goose bumps." 2. "To cook someone's goose." 3. "To kill the goose that lays golden eggs." 

English Idioms: Idioms with birds: 1. As free as a bird. 2. Birds of a feather flock together. 3. To go on a wild goose chase.

English idioms: Animal idioms: Horses: Hold your horses. You are beating a dead horse. Explanations and examples.