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road signs, which provides an
up-to-date account of idioms, and especially most
frequently used ones. The investigation has yielded some (Whitford, 1973)
(Longman, 1998)idioms with meanings as shown in the following tables:
English idioms
Meaning
1
At the crossroads
If you‘re at a crossroads, you are a point
where an important decision or choice has
to be made.
2
All roads lead to Rome
an expression
meaning that many
methods will lead to the same result
3
Two-way street
A situation in which both sides must put f
orth an equal amount of effort to achieve
a desired
result.
4
stop [one]
dead in
[one‘s] tracks
halt or surprise someone completely
5
as
much as the traffic
will bear
The maximum
amount that customers are willing to pay.
6
go play in (the) traffic
To go away and leave one alone because
what is being done or said is very irritatin
g. Often
used as an imperative
7
give way
To succumb to something.
8
In a roundabout way
When someone does not tell you in a
straightforward
or direct way or takes a
long time to get to the point, we can say
that they
have a roundabout way of