Idioms

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<p>Anyone know how to memorize idioms? or where I can find a complete list of idioms we have to know?</p>

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<p>i know that gruber’s has a list of idioms in its grammar section. but unless you’re a non-native speaker, i don’t see why you should have to memorize idioms, which ought to come naturally to you…</p>

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<p>im from america, just a few of them confuse me like something with to or of or with.</p>

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<p>you should make a thread and lets get a list going</p>

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<p>I’ll start first (got this from an SAT practice test):</p>

<p>Prefer TO </p>

<p>Prefer the mall to street stores…NOT prefer the mall more than street stores</p>

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<p>prefer ____ to _____
just as _____ so _____
in contrast of
preoccupied with</p>

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<p>allow for;
consistent with;
invest in</p>

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<p>protest against
vote for
worried about
either<strong><em>or</em></strong>
neither<strong><em>nor</em></strong>__
not<strong><em>but</em></strong></p>

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<p>ability…to
attempt…to
so much…as ( know this <—)
so…that</p>

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<p>can u give me an example of so much… as?
It helps me remember o_O</p>

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<p>The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it．
most of the time it’s not so much…as, notice the parallelism there.
not so much …as means— rather than..</p>

<p>The great use of a school education is not so much to teach you things as to teach you the art of learning．</p>

<p>by the way, the may 08 SAT actually tested this, i didn’t know it back then =S
i also found one like this structure in the online course tests ,somewhere. =p</p>

<p>idiom list going:</p>

<p>Desirous of.</p>