EnglishGrammar.org 100 Canadian Idioms and Sayings
EnglishGrammar.org 100 Canadian Idioms and Sayings lists one hundred expressions heard in Canada, each with a short definition, in one numbered table. It runs from everyday Canadian words such as a loonie, a toonie, a toque and a chesterfield, through hockey figures of speech including drop the gloves and keep your stick on the ice, to wider English idioms such as break even and get down to brass tacks.
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How It Helps Your Business English
One hundred numbered entries, each an expression with a one-line definition. The Canadian ones include a loonie, a two-four, double-double, go for a rip, grab a Timmies, toque weather, north of 60, the Great White North and take off, eh. The wider ones include break the ice, burn the midnight oil, call it a day, on the same page, pull your weight and when push comes to shove.
You can read straight down the table, since the entries are alphabetical and each definition runs to one line, or look for the expression a colleague used and find its meaning in the column beside it. A few at a time, said aloud, will stay with you better than all one hundred at one sitting, and the hockey expressions repay being learned together, because they turn up in Canadian offices.
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