Who we are (WEEK 4):

What are idioms?

There are idioms with parts of our bodies, such as... 

1. "A sight for sore eyes"... MEANING → A sight that makes you happy. 
   
2. "Pain in the neck"... MEANING → Something or someone is making your life difficult. 
   
3. "Weak at the knees"... MEANING → To feel an emotion so strongly that it makes you feel unstable on your feet. 
   
4. "Find your feet"... MEANING → To adjust to a new place or situation. 
   
5. "Joined at the hip"... MEANING → To be exceptionally close to someone.
6. "A weight off your shoulders"... MEANING → You no longer have to worry about something or deal with something difficult. 
   

- An inversion happens when we reverse (invert) the normal word order of a structure, most commonly the subject-verb word order. Here, there are some links where this grammar method is explained: 

• https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/inversion.html
• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/word-order-and-focus/inversion

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