How to memorize new words and vocabulary easily

How to memorize new words and vocabulary easily in a foreign language seems to be as if theory was always boring. But it isn´t. The proof is in the pudding.



And following the example, let´s see how many expressions you are able to memorize.

You can help yourself of the chart below, by matching idioms with pictures.

1. To be high and dry: Without any help, or without things that you need

2. To be as old as hills: Extremely old

3. Once in a blue moon: Very rarely

4. To cut to the chase:  To get to the point. To leaves details out

5. To take something with a grain / pinch of salt: to accept something, but not to completely believe it

6. As easy as pie: Very easy

7. As mad as March hare: Completely mad

8. To be on cloud nine: To be on a state of euphoria, or extremely happy 

9. To have seen the elephant / the lions: To have experience, to have seen the world

10. At sixes and sevens: In disorder and in confusion

11.   Like a red rag to a bull: A deliberate provocation, something that makes somebody angry

12. Top drawer: Of the highest quality, category or importance

13. Baker´s dozen: Thirteen of something

14. To be on the pig´s back: To be happy or to be rich

15. Bag and baggage: With all one´s possessions