Sunday, November 15, 2009

IDIOMS

Read from the same page
When people are reading from the same page, they say the same things in public about an issue.
Recharge your batteries
If you recharge your batteries, you do something to regain your energy after working hard for a long time.
Red carpet
If you give someone the red-carpet treatment, you give them a special welcome to show that you think they are important. You can roll out the red carpet, too.
Red rag to a bull
If something is a red rag to a bull, it is something that will inevitably make somebody angry or cross.
Reds under the bed
An ironic allusion to the obsession some people have that there are reds (communists) everywhere plotting violent revolution.
Reduce to ashes
If something is reduced to ashes, it is destroyed or made useless. His infidelities reduced their relationship to ashes.