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12 ‘WALL’ Expressions in English
A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word is used in a non-literal way. For example, if someone is very annoying, you can say, “You drive me up the wall!” This doesn’t mean that you are literally driving on a wall, but it expresses your feelings using other words. In this lesson, I will teach you some useful English idioms and metaphors, all of them containing the wordwall. We will go over expressions like wall to wall, fly on the wall, to have your back to the wall, to see the writing on the wall, walls have ears, and more. Metaphors and idioms are an important part of English, and this lesson will help you understand and use some very common expressions in your everyday conversations.
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thanks, Gill !! Your lessons are always interesting!!
Thank you Gill for this interesting lesson as usual.
I got 7/9 and wrong at unconventional, now i got it. Thank Gill
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thankyou..i improve my grammar skills and pharses skills too.its an interessting lesson for me..thankyou once again
i got 7/9 and wrong at un conventional and annoyed..now i got it.thanks gill
Thank you)) Everything is clear. 9/9
Gill, it was an interesting lesson, thank you!
Thank you so much Gill!!
As always, you explain all the expressions carefully and in detailed with interesting examples so that we can remember all of them.
Thanks!!
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Great lesson! Congratulations!
It is very interesting lesson.
You can explain everything ;)
Thank you very much!
Your eхplanation is great as usual
Dear Gill, hope find you well!
Dod you teach student via internat? If yes, we may further talk . Is that possible to leave your contact information ? Like SKYPE or EMAIL and so on .
Hello – you can send me an email message via the EngVid website, and they will forward it to me. Best wishes, Gill :-)
I mean one by one, like my doughther has been taough by a English teacher via ZOOM or ZHUMU. I have watched so many your teaching videos and i like your class and the way you speaking. It souds clear and easy.
I got 5/9 but
Thanks a lot for the lessons Gill
what a teacher, thank you!!!
What a great teacher. Thank you very much Gill!!!
thanks
Very interesting lesson!!I didn’t expect that the world “wall” could could be use in so many expressions
I’ve got 8 correct of 9. Quite an interesting lesson and well explained. Thank you, teacher.
thank you so
Great lesson, Gill!
Those idioms are really practical and useful too. Most of them are different here in Brazil.
As far as I could understand, most of the idiomatic expressions involving the word “wall” have a negative meaning, in my opinion. It represents something that keeps you from doing another thing, or is making you suffer somehow.
I also like the Biblical explanation. It’s quite interesting.
Many thanks!
Thanks for the interesting lesson :) It was very good, I learned new expressions, and now I understand some others I’ve heard before but I wasn’t sure what they meant.
Hello.. thank you for the magnificent pronunciation ; and for the entire lesson of course
Hello.. thank you for the magnificent pronunciation ; and for the entire lesson of course
9 /9
Thank you Jill, hugs. (Kazakhstan, 07 october2021);
Hi, Gill! 8 correct out of 9! I need to beef up my knowledge ↑
Thank you for the wonderful class! Idioms is interesting and useful, I feel bored about just using like text books.I will use idioms that you talked this time. Taking your courses are great way for me to go further step.
Thank you for the wonderful class! Idioms is interesting and useful, I feel bored about just using like text books.I will use idioms that you talked this time. Taking your courses are great way for me to go further step.
Excellent topic