Thursday, February 4, 2016

IDIOMS

There are three idioms that use the word silver:


Watch this video, and then write a sentence that uses one (or more) of these three idioms.

Try not to use the same idiom as the other participants.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/theteacher/2009/04/090423_teacher_colour_silver.shtml

4 comments:

Unknown said...

The child that was born with a silver spoon in his mouth grew up to be one of the greatest con artists in the world; his tongue was so silver that he took all your money, but the silver lining in the cloud is that you no longer have to pay back the money you owe me.

WN155 said...

The business man did not earn his position, he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

The Berg said...

The man was an absolute wretch; some people even said he was a silver-tongued devil.

Michael said...

Excellent!