NOVEMBER/Christmas Idioms - Collaborative table

Each school chooses 1 Christmas idiom and writes it on the collaborative table

- please read all the idioms and try to choose a different one.

Teacher	School / Country	Christmas Idiom
Vanda Nunes	Agrupamento de Escolas de Silves Portugal	Be there with bells on
Valentyna Gatalska	Troyeshchyna gymnasium, Kyiv, Ukraine	All roads lead home at Christmas
SİBEL KÜÇÜKAKSOY	Şehit Astsubay Cemil Erkek Secondary School	to light up like a christmas tree
Hasan AKPULAT	Uskudar Anatolian Islamic High School	the more the merrier
Demet KOÇOĞLU	Mehmet Azman Çavuş Secondary School, Turkey	All my Christmases have come together
Kirsten Barrett	St. Maria Goretti, Glasgow, Scotland	Snowed under
Alina Labanauskaite	Aukuras Basic School	White Christmas Meaning: Christmas with the snow
Mehmana Heydarova	Lankaran school N°7, Azerbaijan	Like turkeys voting for Christmas
Nida TÜRKELAY	ERCAN AKIN SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL	Meet Me Under the Mistletoe
Pınar MONTÖR	G.h.v İnal Aydınoğlu Secondary School	Never look a gift horse in the mouth
Ana Clara Grecu	Liceul tehnologic Carol I, Valea Doftanei	To be off someon’s Christmas card list
Turgut Aydın	Koçarlı Anatolian High School-Turkey	Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth This idiom means: don’t be ungrateful when you receive a gift, even if you don’t like it. So, next time you’ll receive your umpteenth scarf or useless gadget on Christmas day, smile, say thank you and don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. ○ I know the car’s not in great condition, but you shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
Martina Ferrario	IIS Luigi Castiglioni - Limbiate (MB) - Italy	'Secret Santa' - This idiom is typical at Christmas and describes when members of a group are assigned a person to give a Christmas present. Example - We are doing secret Santa at school and I must absolutely go shopping this afternoon to buy some tiny presents for my schoolmates.
Veronica Keohane	Liceo Enrico Medi, Senigallia, Italy	Don't get your tinsel in a tangle
Marcela Cudráková	ZS Martinska, Slovakia	Don´t be a Scrooge! White Christmas
Tetiana Shypko	School "Intelect", Bilmak, Ukraine	Christmas comes but once a year
Roberta Di Giuliano	ISC SAN SALVO 2 - Italy	Christmas with yours parents, Easter with whomever you want
Ali Coşkun	HNTİ-Adana-Turkey	bring christmas good luck
Euriell Bienvenu	Collèges Kerpape et Parc Ar C'Hoat-FRANCE	To trim the tree Meaning: to decorate the Christmas tree with ribbons, lights, ornaments etc. Example: My family usually trims the Christmas tree with red and green lights and wooden ornaments.
Ayşe AKTAŞ	TOKİ ŞEHİT SÜLEYMAN YILMAZ ANAtolıan High  SCHOOL	Where does Bah, humbug come from?   The origin of the word humbug is unknown, though it is clear that it emerged in mid-18th century England. The first known use of humbug in print was in 1751 in The Student, or the Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany, which calls the term “a word very much in vogue with the people of taste and fashion.” The Universal Jester: Or, a Pocket Companion for the Wits by Ferdinando Killigrew is another early example (1754): “merry conceits, facetious drolleries, &c., clenchers, closers, closures, bon-mots and humbugs.” In the original sense from both these early sources, a humbug was a “trick” or a “hoax.” Humbug’s sense of “deceit” associated it with “nonsense” and “bother” by the early 19th century, when Dickens was writing. With the publication of his A Christmas Carol in 1843, the most popular phrase including the word humbug became the exclamation Bah! Humbug!, the catchphrase of the miserly main character Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge’s bah is an exclamation of contempt or annoyance. Since then, bah humbug has come to invoke Scrooge’s (initial) grouchy attitude toward Christmas in other contexts.