Can you define the following idioms?

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Can you define the following idioms?

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• 1. wrestled with the tale.

  Struggled with (telling or listening to) a story. It does not literally mean wrestling.

  2. was all in all to him.

  Was everything to him.

  3. …his hopes were very high.

  His hopes aren’t aerodynamic. This just means he was very hopeful.

  4. win the mother over.

  Winning the mother over is getting her on his side, getting her to support him, to believe in him, to get her convinced. (This one is hard to explain because I keep seeing more idioms in my explanation.)

  5. …Nobody was stirring.

  Nobody is moving. Everyone is still. (And there is not a spoon in sight.)

  6. took to the road.

  He went on a journey. Taking to the road implies he might be a vagabond, or at the very least, a great traveller.

  7. They were all moved.

  They were moved emotionally. This does not mean they relocated. It means their emotions were deeply touched.

  8. head for planning.

  Her brain was especially good at planning. Or…she was skilled at planning.

  (This reminds me of that movie Working Girl, when Melanie Griffith (as Tess McGill ) says “I have a head for business and a bod for sin.)

• 1. Sailors were know for the stories they told in this idiom the sailor isn’t sure whether the story is true or an exaggeration so he is thinking about it a lot.

  2. This is a way of saying that Mary was everything that he needed in life, a friend, soul-mate. She was his emotional, physical and intellectual support system. She was everything to him.

  3. ‘High hopes’ is a way of saying that this person has the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.

  4. To win someone ‘over’ is to persuade them to your side.

  5. Nobody stirring is to say that no one was moving about.

  6. ‘He took to the road’ would mean that he started to travel

  7. ‘They were all moved’, means that everyone felt the same emotion whether it was sad or happy, everyone felt it.

  8. Having the ‘best head’ for something means that it is a talent that someone has, such as planning.

  Have fun with idioms and make up a few yourself.

• Tale Idioms

• 1. i need more context…give me more sentences before and after the quote. it could mean that the sailors tried hard to understand the story, or they tried their best to tell the story.

  2. i need more sentences for this one as well. “all in all,” means “in total” or “for the most part.” so to HIM, mary seemed a certain way to him, for the most part. example: “although it was scary in some parts, all in all, it was a good movie.”

  3. he was very confident. he was sure that things would happen the way that he thought they would.

  4. he was hoping to impress mother. he wanted mother to be on his side.

  5. no one moved, OR, no one was awake and moving about.

  6. he set off to journey on the road.

  7. they were all emotional. they were touched by what had just happened. their feelings were affected.

  8. mrs. enderby was very talented in coming up with plans.

• Mark Twain’s A Story Without An End