REFERENCE: Idioms and Other Expressions
FICTION: “Follow the Water,” pages 11-17
September 2016
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What Does That Mean?
Idioms and Other Expressions
“Follow the Water”
Here are four expressions in the story that you might be unfamiliar with:
“I put up with a lot
on this planet.” (p. 10)
When you patiently accept something
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unpleasant, you put up with it. In other words,
to put up with something is to tolerate it.
“She’s just that kind of person.
She tells it like it is.” (p. 14)
If you tell it like it is, you speak openly and
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honestly about a situation, no matter how
unpleasant it might be. You tell the truth
without leaving out any negative details.
“He sits down and digs into
his rehydrated eggs.”(p. 14)
To dig into food is to start eating it—and in
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particular, to start eating it in an enthusiastic way.
“‘Dying?
I’m healthy as a horse!’”(p. 16)
If you are as healthy as a horse, you are very
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healthy—strong and powerful like a horse.
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