Why I collect idioms - alphabetical list
I started collecting idioms at the request of a Chinese speaker who had trouble understanding everyday English. I was compiling a book to help him, including a list of idioms. I see a lot of idioms in the Daily Mail online. I also read the BBC news and the English newspaper the Times. I get directed by Google or AI to other overseas sources such as Singapore's Sunday Times, Indian newspapers. I hear spoken idioms at meetings. I look at websites of quotations. I have hardback books of idioms. Here is my ongoing list. Alhabetically. Not updated in date order but alphabetically. blindsided - surprised A car used to have a blind side, where drivers could not see vehicles or poeple on the side, before improvements to mirrors and windows. Why is blindsided one word made from two, not hyphenated, not left as two words? When two nouns are linked to become an adjective, instead of having three separate words, the two linked nouns are joined to form an adjective, or compound nou...