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Basic Needs
[b4:d] [b4rd]
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EverydayExpressions
n.
She killed two birds with one stone by shopping and visiting the
museumon the same trip.
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She is a strange bird.
Linguistic Skill
$%&' UsefulPhrases
( --- a useful bird
) --- a pernicious bird
*+ --- a bird of prey
,-./ --- birds eye view
01231 dio!s " Slang
bird in the bush --- 45678
bird in the hand--- 95678
the birds and the bees ---(:;7)9?@?A7BC$D
early bird ---EF7#FG7#
flip / give somebody the bird --- H#7I
#o!!unicating #learly
JKL1 Street$alks
A: Ill never be a telephone operator! That job is for the birds.
B: Thats you! Personally I thin its an interesting job.
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A: "ee you are one strange bird.%&Hi Rick, guess what,
Wallaces twenty years old and doesnt know about the birds and the
bees. B&!oure kidding"A: #hat are you doing up here$
B: I want to get a birds eye view of the %a&pus. I dont thin
Ill ever be an early bird.%o you see that$ B&What$ %& %hat
guy &ust gave you the bird"
#ultural 'ocus
MN:O $ranscripts
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Little (enny&'ray with me, (orrest. 'ray with me. #ear )od,
make me a bird, so * can fly far, far far away from here. #ear )od,
make me a bird... 'orrest&+ama always said that )od is
mysterious. He didnt turn enny into a bird that day. *nstead, he
had the police say that enny didnt have to stay in that house no
more.
PQRSTU
V1 Prover)s
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Birds of the sa&e feather flo% together.
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The early bird %at%hes the wor&.
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'ill two birds with one stone. (ne stone ills two birds.
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*uotations
o bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
#illia& Blae(1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver. The
Marriage of Heaven
