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Can everyone read the above yellow color? I just made up a combination... Tell me if its un-readable....
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monkey see, monkey do

silly/unintelligent people tend to copy each other's actions

Our one-year-old is saying bad words now. I told my husband, "Monkey see, monkey do!"



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HoLy CoW!

Wow, I'm surprised!
Holy cow! I can't believe you ate everything on your plate.


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Hahahaha! The person was probably a dirty-eater!!!!
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dog days

very hot days

I sleep in the basement during the dog days of August.


(July's hot for me, but I love it the most!)

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kill two birds with one stone

get two things done at once

If you pick the groceries up when you drop George off for his shift, you will kill two birds with one stone.

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Haven't seen Mad-ox, or TheOneNOnly here for long....
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Haven't seen Mad-ox, or TheOneNOnly here for long....

Cheer up, here I am, Huda!!!
And I have an idiom with me::::

have a cow

get extremely upset (often over something minor)

My teacher had a cow when she realized nobody had done the homework.

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Thankyou for all these lovely idioms and their pictures, Huda!
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Your welcome, Joyer and TheOneNOnly!
Idioms aren't interesting till you have their pictures with them..
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