Burn your fingers also have/get your fingers burned/burnt

Egghead

The nature of semantic change is metaphor

The result of semantic change is pejoration.

1. A bald person, especially a man.(direct)

2. An intellectual. (inverse)

To ponder - to weigh carefully in the mind; consider thoughtfully:

To contemplate - to look at or view with continued attention; to consider thoroughly; think fully or deeply about

To meditate - to engage in transcendental meditation, devout religiouscontemplation, or quiescent spiritual introspection.

To think - to consider for evaluation or for possible action upon, to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning,remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.

Practice 6

Man

- adult, person, human, human being

- boyfriend, husband, lover, partner

Woman

- better half, daughter of Eve, girl, wife, adult female,

Evident

- manifest, patent, distinct, obvious, apparent, plain, clear mean readily perceived or apprehended. manifest implies an external display so evident that little or no inference is required <manifest hostility>. patent applies to a cause, effect, or significant feature that is clear and unmistakable once attention has been directed to it<patent defects>. distinct implies such sharpness of outline or definition that no unusual effort to see or hear or comprehend is required <a distinct refusal>. obvious implies such ease in discovering that it often suggests conspicuousness or little need for perspicacity in the observer <the obvious solution>. apparent is very close to evident except that it may imply more conscious exercise of inference <for no apparent reason>. plain suggests lack of intricacy, complexity, or elaboration <her feelings about him are plain>. clear implies an absence of anything that confuses the mind or obscures the pattern <a clearexplanation>.

Pastime

- game, hobby, amusement, entertainment

FLOWER ? FLOUR

Homophones

ALTER ? ALTAR

Homophones

WALES ? WHALES

Homophones

EAR ? EAR

Perfect homonyms

Practice 7

A linguistic dictionary

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According to the nature of word-list- unrestricted

According to the information given about each item ? general

In a accordance with the language is which information is giving ? bilingual

According to the intended user ? designed for the general public

Best man

the chief attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding.

break the ice

a.) to succeed initially; make a beginning.

b.) to over come reserve, awkwardness,or formality within a group, as in introducing persons:The chairman broke the ice with his warm and very amusing remarks.

Black sheep

figurative use is supposedly because a real black sheep had wool that could not be dyed and was thus worthless. But one black sheep in a flock was considered good luck by shepherds in Sussex, Somerset, Kent, Derbyshire. Baa Baa Black Sheep nursery rhyme's first known publication is in "Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book".

Black sheep - a person who is regarded as a disgrace or failure by his family or peer group

burn your fingers also have/get your fingers burned/burnt

to suffer unpleasant results of an action, especially loss of money, so you are not keen to try the same thing again Many investors burn their fingers when they are tempted by get-rich-quick schemes. Several art dealers got their fingers burned on old master paintings that later turned out to be fakes.

To burn one's fingers - to get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc.

to burn one's fingers

(idiomatic) to harm oneself; to suffer consequences of one's actions. He burned his fingers in the stock market and has been timid about investing ever since.

In a nutshell - in very brief form; in a few words: Just tell me the story in a nutshell.

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