Improve your English vocabulary and comprehension with a quick, fun lesson in idioms. Idioms: Sports—Hit a Home Run teaches the 50 most-common idioms that come from sports.
Sports Idioms
People become emotional when talking about sports. Think about parents watching their kids play youth sports, like Little League baseball, or fans watching a professional baseball game. With all that emotion, many colorful sports idioms have become common.
What does it mean if an office worker hits a home run? Will a window get broken is workers are playing baseball inside? What does it mean if people have something up their sleeves? Does it mean they don't have pockets?
Learn these and other essential phrases in Idioms: Sports—Hit a Home Run.
Quick Targets • Idioms 50
The Idioms series 50 series from Quick Targets provides bite-size lessons that are fast and entertaining.
English idioms are difficult for learners because there are thousands to cover. Quick Targets solves this problem by teaching groups of idioms together, arranged by topic, such as money, sports, foods, and study. By studying idiom groups this way, students can more easily learn and remember the material.
The Quick Targets Idioms series features:
• Idiom Groups: Teaching idioms by topic.
• Comics: Idioms introduced with fun illustrations showing phrases in use.
• Definitions & Notes: Simple English definitions, grammar explanations and notes on idioms’ origins.
• Numerous Examples: Sentences showing idioms used with different verb tenses, objects, etc.
• Lively Dialogues: Fun conversations showing further examples of the idioms in use.
• Practice & Quizzes: Review and test your knowledge with cloze, best response, and other exercises.
• Alphabetical Idioms Dictionary: Sports idiom dictionary for review and reference.
New Edition: Quick Targets • Idioms 50
• Now the 50 most-common idioms per topic
• Three times larger
• Beautiful fixed-layout format
• The beauty of a traditional textbook with the technology of a Kindle e-book.
