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Idiom Trivia <DIV align=center> <IMG src="http://teacherweb.com/TX/CedarValleyMiddleSchool/MrsMarks/idiomcartoon.jpg" border=0></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P align=left><STRONG><STRONG><U><EM><FONT face=Garamond color=#008040 size=4>EXAMPLE: Use this format for all of your Idiom Trivia assignments.</FONT></EM></U></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><STRONG><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond color=#008040>"Ace up Your Sleeve"</FONT></STRONG></STRONG></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><STRONG><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond color=#008040></FONT></STRONG> </STRONG></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><STRONG><FONT color=#008040><FONT face=Garamond><STRONG><U>Meaning:</U></STRONG> A surprise or secret advantage, especially something tricky that </FONT><FONT face=Garamond>is kept hidden until needed.</FONT></FONT></STRONG></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond color=#008040></FONT> </STRONG></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><STRONG><FONT color=#008040><FONT face=Garamond><STRONG><U>Origin:</U></STRONG> Back in the 1500's most people didn't have pockets in their </FONT><FONT face=Garamond>clothes, so they kept things in their sleeves. Later on, magicians hid </FONT><FONT face=Garamond>objects, even small live animals, up their sleeves and then pulled them out </FONT><FONT face=Garamond>unexpectedly to surprise their audiences. In the 1800's dishonest card </FONT><FONT face=Garamond>players secretly slipped a winning card, often an ace, up their sleeves and </FONT><FONT face=Garamond>pulled it out when nobody was looking to win the game.</FONT></FONT></STRONG></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond color=#008040></FONT> </STRONG></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond color=#008040><STRONG><U>Context Sentence:</U> </STRONG>Although our opponents felt they had the game won in the fourth quarter, our team still had an ace up their sleeves because we won the game.</FONT></STRONG></P> <UL> <LI> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><STRONG> <STRONG><FONT face=Garamond size=4>You must paraphrase the meaning in your own words. </FONT></STRONG></STRONG></DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><STRONG><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Remember that when you paraphrase you do not omit details!</FONT></STRONG></STRONG></DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><STRONG><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Use the idiom in a sentence to demonstrate understanding in context.</FONT></STRONG><FONT size=5></FONT></STRONG></DIV> </LI> </UL> </BLOCKQUOTE><STRONG><FONT size=5></FONT></STRONG> <DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=4><A href="http://teacherweb.com/TX/CedarValleyMiddleSchool/MrsMarks/idiomtriviaform.ppt">Idiom Trivia Template</A> <BR> <BR> <BR> <STRONG>Week of December 7:<BR> </STRONG> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">Hit the Jackpot"</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"> Meaning:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To be very lucky; to achieve amazing success.<BR> <BR> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">Origin:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In 19th century America, when this phrase was first used, if <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>you "hit the jackpot" in a card game, you won all of the money.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Today the <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>saying refers to any kind of lucky success in any area of life.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <BR> <BR> <STRONG>Week of November 30:<BR> </STRONG> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><STRONG>"Let the Cat Out of the Bag" </STRONG></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><STRONG>Meaning:</STRONG> to give away a secret<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><STRONG>Origin:</STRONG> Centuries ago in England you might have bought a costly pig at a farmer's market. But if the merchant was dishonest and put a worthless cat into the bag instead of a piglet, you might not find out until you got home and let the cat out of the bag.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <BR> <BR> <STRONG>Week of November 16:<BR> </DIV> </STRONG> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG>"Nothing to Sneeze At"<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></P> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3><STRONG> </STRONG><STRONG>Meaning:</STRONG> Not small or unimportant; something to be taken seriously.<o:p></o:p></FONT> <DIV> </DIV> </SPAN></DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">Origin:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the early 1800s people were already using this saying.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>it comes from the idea of turning your nose up at something or someone to <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>express scorn or contempt.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Since sneezes come from your nose, something <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>that's "not to be sneezed at" should be treated as important and worthy.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <DIV><BR> <STRONG>Week of November 9:<BR> </DIV> </STRONG> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><STRONG>"Ignorance is Bliss" <BR> Meaning:</STRONG> it is better not to know bad new sometimes, especially if you're <BR> happy<BR> <BR> <STRONG>Origin:</STRONG> Many writers over the centuries have expressed this idea. The <BR> Greek playwright, Sophocles, wrote it around 400 B.C. <BR> Nineteen hundred years later Erasmus, a Dutch scholar, quoted it. Then <BR> Thomas Gray, the British poet of the 1700s, used it in one of his poems. He <BR> wrote: "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." It has been a <BR> popular saying ever since.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><BR> <STRONG>Week of November 2:<BR> </STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><STRONG>"Pen is Mightier Than the Sword"</STRONG> <BR> <STRONG>Meaning: </STRONG> Writing is more powerful than fighting.<BR> <BR> <STRONG>Origin:</STRONG> This famous saying was first used in the 1600s. It started out <BR> as “the pen is worse than the sword.” A pen and a sword have certain <BR> characteristics in common. Both are thin, pointed, and handheld. History <BR> has shown that writers and statesmen using their pens have often had a <BR> greater effect on the course of events than military leaders and conquerors <BR> wielding swords. Think of the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, <BR> and other important writings that have changed the course of history more <BR> than wars.<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"> <BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"> </SPAN><BR> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><STRONG>Week of October 26:<BR> </STRONG></SPAN><FONT size=3><STRONG>"Right off the Bat"</STRONG><o:p></o:p></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">Meaning:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Immediately, spontaneously, and without delay.<o:p></o:p></SPAN> <DIV> </DIV> </FONT></DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">Origin:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This saying comes from the game of baseball in the late 1800s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>soon as a ball is hit by a bat, it flies away instantly, without a second's <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>delay.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <DIV><BR> <STRONG style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Week of October 19:<BR> </STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><STRONG>"Out In The Boondocks"<BR> Meaning:</STRONG> In remote places; in rural regions; in sparsely populated areas.<BR> <BR> <STRONG>Origin:</STRONG> Tagalogs are native Filipinos who live in or near Manila, the <BR> capital city of the Philippines. In the Tagalog language, "bundok" means <BR> mountain. The United States military forces stationed in the area of the <BR> Philippines in the first half of the 20th century extended the meaning of <BR> the word from mountain to any place that is far from heavily populated <BR> centers. Today, the saying is sometimes shortened to "in the boonies"</SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR> <STRONG style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Week of October 12:<BR> </DIV> </STRONG> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">"When the Cat's Away, the Mice Will Play"</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">Meaning:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When the person in charge is absent, people will usually do as <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>they please and take advantage of the freedom.<o:p></o:p></FONT> <DIV> </DIV> </SPAN></DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">Origin:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This proverb appears in many languages and has been in use in <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>English since the 1600s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If there's a cat in the house, the mice will tend <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>to stay hidden.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But if the cat is gone, the mice will feel safer and <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>venture out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It's the same with people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When the authority figure (the <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>cat) is not there, the people being supervised (the mice) run free.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <DIV><BR> <STRONG style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Week of October 5:<BR> </DIV> </STRONG> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><STRONG>"Make Waves" <BR> </STRONG>Meaning: to cause trouble; to upset matters; to create a disturbance<BR> <BR> Origin: This 20th century American saying refers to keeping waters still. If <BR> you want to sail peacefully on in your sailboat or float calmly on a raft, <BR> you don't want anybody making waves. That might rock the boat or even flip <BR> your raft over. A related idiom is "rock the boat<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><BR> <BR> <STRONG style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Week of September 28:<BR> </DIV> </STRONG> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><STRONG style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"Add Fuel to the Fire"<BR> </STRONG>Meaning: to make a bad situation worse; to do or say something that causes <BR> more trouble, makes someone angrier<BR> <BR> Origin: Thousands of years ago the famous Roman historian, Livy, used this <BR> expression. If you pour water on a fire, it goes out. But if you put fuel <BR> (like coal or wood) on a fire, you make it burn hotter and brighter. <BR> If "fire" represents any kind of trouble, then anything you do to make that <BR> trouble worse is "fuel." A similar expression is "fan the flames."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><BR> <BR> <STRONG style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Week of Sept. 21:</STRONG><BR> </DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG>"High Horse"<O:P></O:P></STRONG></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG>Meaning:</STRONG><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Acting superior and arrogant as if you were better than other <O:P></O:P></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">people.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG>Origin:</STRONG><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This saying goes back at least to the early 1700s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the 14th <O:P></O:P></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">century, during ceremonial marches and royal exhibitions, well-known people <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">of high rank and superior position in society often rode on large horses <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">that were taller than the average horse.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>From that custom grew the idea <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">that a person who acts haughty, proud, or snobby is on a "high horse."<O:P></O:P></SPAN> <DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><STRONG>Week of September 14:</STRONG></DIV> </SPAN></STRONG> <DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">"Mad as a Hatter"<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Meaning: Completely crazy, strange, eccentric.<BR> Origin: Lewis Carroll created the character of the Mad Hatter in his <BR> classic book, Alice in Wonderland. The expression "mad as a hatter" <BR> comes from the early 1800s. One possible origin is a snake called an <BR> adder. <BR> People in England thought that if you were bitten by an adder, its poison <BR> would make you insane. Some people pronounced "adder" as "atter," so if you <BR> acted crazy, you were as "mad as an atter," which later became "hatter." <BR> Another explanation of the expression's origin is that people who worked in <BR> felt-hat factories in the 1800s inhaled fumes of mercuric nitrate, and, as a <BR> result, developed twitches, jumbled their speech, and grew confused. The <BR> condition was sometimes mistaken for madness and may have given birth to the <BR> saying "mad as a hatter."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <BR> <BR> <STRONG style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Week of Septmeber 7:<BR> </STRONG><BR> </DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">"Fight Tooth and Nail"</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">Meaning:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To fight fiercely, furiously, and ferociously.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'">Origin:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This vivid expression goes far back to a Latin proverb that became <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>a French saying centuries later and finally came into English in 1562.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>wild animals fight, they bite and claw each other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes people fight <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><FONT size=3>fiercely, as if they were animals fighting a deadly battle "tooth and nail."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <DIV><BR> <BR> <BR> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><STRONG>Week of August 31:<BR> </STRONG><BR> </DIV> </SPAN> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"Bring Home the Bacon"<BR> Meaning: to support a family by working<BR> Origin: This saying came from the contest at early American county fairs of <BR> chasing after a greased pig. If you caught it, you could take it home as <BR> your prize.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <DIV><BR> <BR> </DIV> <FONT face="Times New Roman"> <P><FONT face=Garamond size=4></FONT> </P> <P><FONT size=5>Week of August 25:</FONT></P> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">"Come Apart at the Seams"<BR> Meaning: To become so upset that all self-control is gone.<BR> Origin: A person doesn't actually have seams, of course, but think of a <BR> piece of clothing under great strain. <BR> The garment might come apart at the seams or rip open. Similarly, <BR> a nervous person under stress could "come apart at the seams," or fall apart or break down.<o:p></o:p></SPAN> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P><FONT size=5></FONT> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> </FONT></FONT> Or, would you like to view and optionally restore one of these previous versions? 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Mrs. Marks-8th Grade Language Arts

Idiom Trivia

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