Are you preparing for CAE or are you just eager to advance your English? Today, let's look at five advanced idioms that you can start using right away. Did you know that English has dozens of colourful idioms based on the head and its parts? Learning them is a great way to sound more natural and fluent. 1. Pay through the noseThis informal idiom means to pay far too much for something. There is often a feeling that you had no choice or someone charged too much. For example:"

Functional genitive phrases are combinations of a preposition (or a sequence of prepositions) with a noun or pronoun that contain a marker of genitive relations. Such constructions express a wide range of semantic relations and perform various discourse functions. Depending on the nature of the genitive relation they encode, functional genitive phrases may be classified into several groups, including role-related, causal, positional or status-related, quantitative, partitive,

Some animal names can be directly used as verbs, meaning to act like a certain animal: Ape (v.): To mimic or imitate someone, often in an absurd way. Badger (v.): To pester, harass, or ask someone repeatedly. Beaver (v.): To work hard (usually "beaver away"). Buck (v.): To resist or oppose something. Clam (v.): To be silent (usually "clam up"). Cow (v.): To intimidate or subdue someone. Crane (v.): To stretch one's neck to see better. Crow (v.): To brag or express great pri