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🏴‍☠️ TALK LIKE A PIRATE! 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ As today is INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY, let’s take a look at some seafaring-related idioms! 🌪 ‘Batten down the hatches’ was a call to prepare for a storm. Now it means preparation for any difficulties. 🧠 ’The ropes’ is a metaphor for knowledge, so you can ‘know’ or even ’show somebody the ropes’. 🤐 “Pipe down!” Originally a call to go below deck, now it means ‘be quiet’. ⛵️ The ‘jib’ is a small sail on a ship. If you ‘don’t like the cut of someone’s jib’ it means you don’t like their attitude or the way they look. 🥃 Finally ‘three sheets to the wind’ is what many pirates were after a hard day’s pirating - very drunk!

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#BINOMIALS 🤓 BINOMIALS are pairs of words that MUST be in a specific order. If the words are in a different order, it sounds strange: • Postage and packaging is free on all our products. This is true even if the words RHYME: • It’s make or break for United in the semi-final. Sometimes we just repeat the SAME WORD: • He’s been proven wrong time after time. Sometimes binomials are completely IDIOMATIC: • They might be twins but at school they are like chalk and cheese!