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Sayings and Phrases

Sayings and Phrases. For the 6 th Grade. How to set up your notebook. Write on the cover – your name on the top and Sayings and Phrases in the middle. On the first page – write the vocabulary terms. Example . Vocabulary.

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Sayings and Phrases

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  1. Sayings and Phrases For the 6th Grade

  2. How to set up your notebook • Write on the cover – your name on the top and Sayings and Phrases in the middle. • On the first page – write the vocabulary terms

  3. Example

  4. Vocabulary Expressions—words or phrases that are used to convey ideas or feelings beyond their dictionary definitions (sayings and phrases); a group of words used as a unit Proverbs—are sayings that have been used for many years that tell truths about life or human nature; a short wise saying used for a long time by many people Literal language—words describing actual happenings Figurative language—expressions stated in an non-literal sense to give vividness Quotes—to repeat the exact words of Phrase—an expression Aphorisms—a terse sentence expressing a general thought, piece of practical wisdom (maxim, proverb) Idiom—a phrase or group of words with a meaning different from the meaning of the individual words Cliché—an expression which has lost its significance through frequent repetitions, a timeworn phrase

  5. What is happening?

  6. How to set up your notebook • On the second page write – Burst my Bubble on the top line • Skip ten lines and draw a line through the paper • Write Literal Meaning • Skip 3 lines and write Figurative Meaning • Skip 3 lines and write Example • Skip 4 lines and write Origin

  7. As we go through each Saying and Phrase you will follow these steps. In the top portion of the paper you will draw a picture of the Saying or Phrase. What you think it means. • You will then write the Literal Meaning (what you think it means • Then you will write the Figurative Meaning (what it really means) • Then you will give a short example of the meaning (an experience or a sentence) • Last you will write the origin if available

  8. EXAMPLE

  9. Let’s see if we can fill the rest in

  10. Burst my bubble • This is a literal interpretation: you literally (actually) burst a bubble.

  11. Another view “When you told me it was going to rain on the day we are supposed to go to the beach, you burst my bubble!”

  12. What do you think this means? “When you told me it was going to rain on the day we are supposed to go to the beach, you burst my bubble!”

  13. This is a figurative interpretation • In this sentence a bubble has not actually, or literally, been burst; it means that the rain prediction dampened the excitement about the day at the beach. • “Burst my bubble” is a phrase used to describe disappointment.

  14. Does anyone want to share an experience where bubbles were burst?

  15. Let’s take a look at some other sayings and phrases

  16. All for one and one for all.

  17. All for one and one for all. As the Red Dragons headed onto the field, the soccer coach reminded them, “All for one and one for all!”

  18. All for one and one for all. Meaning • All the members of a group support each of the individual members, and the individual members pledge to support the group. • Basically it means All have ONE common GOAL, that all are working for, so they will work together to reach that goal. It's a great motto for teamwork and the ability to get things done if all on a team work for it."Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno" is the Latin phrase that it originated from.It is also known as being the motto of Alexandre Dumas's Three Musketeers and is also the traditional motto of Switzerland.

  19. All’s well that ends well.

  20. All’s well that ends well. At the school dance, Jake managed to step on Alice’s toes, spill punch on her dress, and tear his pants. But when the evening ended and Alice said, “I hope you’ll ask me out again,” Jake sighed to himself, “All’s well that ends well.”

  21. All’s well that ends well. Meaning • A risky enterprise is justified so long as it turns out well in the end. Origin • This is, of course, best known from the Shakespeare play, but it was a proverb before it was a play title. • John Heywood included it in A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue, 1546

  22. Bee in your bonnet

  23. Bee in your bonnet “The school nurse really has a bee in her bonnet about healthy food. But I’ll be glad if she does get the cafeteria to offer a salad bar at last.”

  24. Bee in your bonnet Meaning • Preoccupied or obsessed with an idea. Origin • This phrase clearly alludes to the state of agitation one would be in when finding a bee inside one's bonnet. It follows on from the earlier expression - 'to have bees in one's head', which had much the same meaning. This is recorded from the 16th century, for example, in Alexander Douglas's Aeneis, 1513: • Quhatbern be thou in bed with heid full of beis?

  25. What does All’s well that ends well mean? • Preoccupied or obsessed with an idea. • A risky enterprise is justified so long as it turns out well in the end. • All the members of a group support each of the individual members, and the individual members pledge to support the group. [Default] [MC Any] [MC All]

  26. The Saying “All for one and one for all” means all the members of a group support each of the individual members, and the individual members pledge to support the group. • True • False

  27. Fill in the Blank“The school nurse really has a _____in her bonnet about healthy food. But I’ll be glad if she does get the cafeteria to offer a salad bar at last.” • BEE

  28. The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go awry.

  29. The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go awry. Hundreds of men planned and built the Tower of Pisa, but it ended up leaning anyway. The best-laid plans of mice and men go oft awry.

  30. The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go awry. Meaning • The most carefully prepared plans may go wrong. Origin • From Robert Burns' poem To a Mouse, 1786. It tells of how he, while plowing a field, upturned a mouse's nest. The resulting poem is an apology to the mouse: • But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane [you aren't alone] In proving foresight may be vain:The best laid schemes o' mice an' menGang aft a-gley, [often go awry] An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,For promised joy.

  31. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

  32. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. The excited contestant on the game show had just won a car. “And now,” said the host, “you can keep the car, or you can give it back and spin the wheel again to try for an even better prize!” “Thanks,” replied the contestant, “I’ll keep the car. A bird in the hand is better that two in the bush.”

  33. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Meaning • It's better to have a small real advantage than the possibility of a greater one. Origin • This proverb refers back to mediaeval falconry where a bird in the hand (the falcon) was a valuable asset and certainly worth more than two in the bush (the prey).

  34. Bite the dust

  35. Bite the dust “Despite a gallant effort, the Blue Demons bite the dust, and our own Bobcats have won again!” cheered the announcer.

  36. Bite the dust Meaning • Fall to the ground, wounded or dead. Origin • Given the many B-feature cowboy movies in which the bad guys, or occasionally the pesky redskins, would 'bite the dust', we might expect this to be of American origin. It isn't though. The same notion is expressed in the earlier phrase 'lick the dust', from the Bible, where there are several uses of it, including Psalms 72 (King James Version), 1611: • "They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him and his enemies shall lick the dust."

  37. Catch-as-catch-can

  38. Catch-as-catch-can “We don’t have as many musical instruments as we do students,” said the music teacher, “so bring in your kazoos, your harmonicas, even empty coffee cans. It’s pretty much catch-as-catch-can, but we’ll still sound great.”

  39. Catch-as-catch-can Meaning • A phrase that describes a situation in which people must improvise or do what they can with limited means: “We don’t have enough textbooks for all of the students, so it’ll be catch-as-catch-can.” • Using or making do with whatever means are available Origin • Unknown

  40. Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.

  41. Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face. Sam was angry. “I studied really hard for that math test and my grade was terrible. So you know what I’m going to do for the next test? I’m not going to study at all.” “Oh, come on, Sam,” said Dana. “Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.”

  42. Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face. Meaning • Disadvantage yourself in order to do harm to an adversary. Origin • The precise wording 'cut off your nose to spite your face' doesn't appear in print until the 18th century. Versions of proverbs that mean much the same thing date back to the Tudor era. John Heywood's A Dialogue ConteynyngProuerbes and Epigrammes, 1562 list this entry under "Of Spite": • If there be any, as I hope there be none, That would lese [lose] both his eyes to lese his foe one,Then fear I there be many, as the world go'th, That would lese one eye to lese their foes both.

  43. Don’t lock the stable door after the horse is stolen

  44. Don’t lock the stable door after the horse is stolen

  45. Don’t lock the stable door after the horse is stolen Meaning • It's foolish to take precautions after the damage they would have prevented has already been done. Another version of this saying is “Don't close the barn door after the horse runs away.” Origin • Unknown

  46. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

  47. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth “Alec, I can’t believe you’re giving me your old bike! Thanks!” Stacie said as she jumped on and began to play with the gears. “Say, do all the gears work?” “Don’t you know better than to look a gift horse in the mouth, Stacie?” said Alec, disappointed. “The bike may be old, but it’ll get you where you want to go.”

  48. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth Meaning • Don't be ungrateful when you receive a gift. Origin • As horses age their teeth begin to project further forward each year and so their age can be estimated by checking how prominent the teeth are. This incidentally is also the source of another teeth/age related phrase - long in the tooth. • The advice given in the 'don't look...' proverb is: when given a present, be grateful for your good fortune and don't look for more by examining it to assess its value. • We have some clues with this one however. The phrase was originally "don't look a given horse in the mouth" and first appears in print in 1546 in John Heywood's A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue, where he gives it as: • "No man ought to looke a geuen hors in the mouth."

  49. Eat humble pie

  50. Eat humble pie Carlos bragged that he was the fastest runner in the school, but he had to eat humble pie when he came in last at the time trials..

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