Tips for Improving American English Skills: American English Idioms Using the Word "Up:" What's Up with That?

Proverbs

Empty vessels make the most noise - Those people who have a little knowledge usually talk the most and make the greatest fuss.

Great talkers are little doers - Those people who talk a lot and are always teaching others usually do not do much work.

A hungry man is an angry man. - A person who does not get what he wants or needs is a frustrated person and will be easily provoked to rage.

A man is as old as he feels. - A person's age is immaterial - it is only when he thinks and feels that he is ageing that he actually bocomes old.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Tips for Improving American English Skills: American English Idioms Using the Word "Up:" What's Up with That?

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