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Objectives:

To build a personal website                   

To know some idioms & slangs meaning.                  

. To be able to use idioms in each situation.

 

Definition of Idioms

 n 1: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a
language [syn: parlance]

2: the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific
group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of
English"; "he has a strong German accent" [syn: dialect,
accent]
3: the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an
imaginative orchestral idiom" [syn: artistic style]

4: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the
meanings of the words that make it up [syn: idiomatic
expression, phrasal idiom, set phrase, phrase]
 

http://dict.die.net/idiom/
 

Definition of Slangs

 n 1: informal language consisting of words and expressions that
          are not considered appropriate for formal occasions;
          often vituperative or vulgar; "their speech was full of
          slang expressions"
     2: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among
        thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn:
cant, jargon,
        
lingo, argot, patois, vernacular]
     v 1: use slang or vulgar language
  
   3: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted
        everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn:
gull, dupe, befool,
        
cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put
       
one across]
    
4: abuse with coarse language

http://dict.die.net/slang/

 

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