Get Your Nose Out of Joint
And Other Medical Expressions
From the Series It's Just an Expression
A taste of your own medicine. Rub salt in the wound. Warts and all. Have you ever heard these crazy expressions? People use them even when you don’t have to take any medicine and you don’t have any wounds or warts! That’s because these sentences are idioms—phrases that mean something different than what the words in them actually say. But don’t let idioms be your Achilles’ heel. Let’s explore a variety of idioms related to health and medicine and figure out what people really mean when they use them.
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Reviews
School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
“The pages are well designed, and the texts are lively. Since many of the idioms have mathematical, historical, or scientific connections, this series may be used across curriculums, with plenty of opportunities for writing activities.” —School Library Journal, Series Made Simple