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Page 1: What are they?. What does it mean to be green? If you are green, you ❛ support the environment by making wise choices in what you do and how you live

IDIOMSWhat are they?

Page 2: What are they?. What does it mean to be green? If you are green, you ❛ support the environment by making wise choices in what you do and how you live

Being Green:What does it mean to be green?

Page 3: What are they?. What does it mean to be green? If you are green, you ❛ support the environment by making wise choices in what you do and how you live

If you are green, you support the environment ❛

by making wise choices in what you do and how you live .❜

Page 4: What are they?. What does it mean to be green? If you are green, you ❛ support the environment by making wise choices in what you do and how you live

Ignorance is Bliss

What does that mean?

Page 5: What are they?. What does it mean to be green? If you are green, you ❛ support the environment by making wise choices in what you do and how you live

The English idiom ignorance is bliss means that not knowing ❛something makes us more happy than knowing it. ❜

Another way of saying the same thing would be what you do not ❛know cannot hurt you. ❜

Page 6: What are they?. What does it mean to be green? If you are green, you ❛ support the environment by making wise choices in what you do and how you live

In the Doghouse

What does this mean?

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You are in the doghouse when someone is angry with ❛

you for something that you have done . Typically, this ❜phrase is used when men are in trouble with their wives.

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Monkey Business

What is meant by that?

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Monkey business can be defined as silly or dishonest ❛behavior❜

"Okay, class. I have had enough of your monkey business. Let’s get out your DGP and get down to business.”

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Idiom Definition

An idiom is an expression whose meaning is completely different from what its words seem to say.