Intermediate | Idioms Lesson 02

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Idioms | Lesson 02
if you please | kith and kin | new lease on life | no strings attached | sell like hot cakes

Example Dialogue

Mary : Can you pass me the glass, if you please?

Sam : Sure! Here it is.

Mary : Anyway, the reunion will take place next Sunday with our kith and kin.

Sam : Yes, I am excited about that. We will have time for each other again.

Mary: Im also excited to talk about our new lease on life after we experienced that

massive earthquake.

Sam: I heard that Anna became the top in the company. Any product promoted by

her seems to sell like hotcakes.

Mary : She must be a very good in marketing.

Sam : Yes of course! Anna also told me that they would be hiring some again.

Mary : Really? Why dont you try applying there? No strings attached.

Sam : Maybe I will, after I graduate.

Try to figure out the meaning of these idioms.

if you please | kith and kin | new lease on life | no strings attached | sell like hot cakes

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if y ou please | k ith and k in | n ew leas e on life | no s trings attached | s ell lik e hot cak es

Example Passage

Mary and Sam are cousins and they will have their reunion together with their kith

and kin. Since they experienced a massive earthquake a year ago, they are looking

forward to talking about their new lease on lives. Mary is a graduating student who

wants to have a job like her cousin Anna, whose products sell like hot cakes in her

company. Mary wants to be in that company if Anna would please to let her enter it

with no strings attached.

Again, try to figure out the meaning of these idioms.

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Definitions

if you please (if you would, please)| a polite phrase to ask someone to do

something

Can I join the club, if you please?

Can you choose some drink for me, if you please?

kith and kin | ones relatives and friends

There is kith and kin pictorial at Rosas wedding.

Her entire kith and kin will attend the party.

new lease on life | relief after a phase of tension.

I took a new lease on life after I recovered from cancer.

Survivors of the typhoon are now getting a new lease on life.

sell like hot cakes | to sell rapidly; to sell fast

Since they opened that clothes store, their clothes have been selling like hot

cakes.

Products during Black Friday sell like hot cakes.

no strings attached | without any extra requirement

Rod and Annie have a relationship with no strings attached.

This support program has no strings attached, so you can fully rely on it.

Make sure to understand the meaning of these idioms.

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Practice

Answer the correct idioms (in a correct form) to complete the sentences.

1 | Pass me the salt, _____________.

2 | My whole _____________ will attend my graduation ceremony.

3 | After the earthquake people got a _____________.

4 | She enter the job with _____________.

5 | Wait for me at the cafeteria, _____________.

6 | Sheila had a reunion with her _____________ yesterday.

7 | I pray and thank God for this _____________.

8 | They were able to get a new ID with _____________ because her friend is an

officer.

9 | Lindsays barbecue _____________ in school.

10 | Lina, can you bring me some food for tonight, _____________ ?

APPLICATION: Create your own sentences using these idioms.

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Exercise

Answer the correct idioms (in a correct form) to complete the dialogue.

(Sam and Kevin were talking about the store.)

Sam : I wanted to buy Benchs new clothes but they _____________ already.

The clerk told me that I needed to wait for a month to get them.

Kevin : Oh, thats sad to hear.

Sam : Yeah... By the way, your sister is working there, right?

Kevin : Yes. Why?

Sam : Im wondering if I can ask her for help so that I can get them with

_____________. Can you ask her, _____________?

Kevin : No problem. Even _____________of any employee can avail a benefit.

Sam : Thank you!

Kevin : Its okay. She is happy now, she is enjoying a _____________after she

went through a hard time when the store was not yet popular.

APPLICATION: Create your own dialogue using these idioms with your teacher.

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