|
ESL Forum:
Techniques and methods
in Language Teaching
Games, activities
and teaching ideas
Grammar and
Linguistics
Teaching material
Concerning
worksheets
Concerning
powerpoints
Concerning online
exercises
Make suggestions,
report errors
Ask for help
Message board
|
ESL forum >
Message board > Word (Phrase) of the Day
Word (Phrase) of the Day
|
juliag
|
Word (Phrase) of the Day
|
Okay, so let �s see what all you lovely ladies and gentlemen make of this, a phrase I have never heard before either but hopefully should stimulate some interesting responses:
Flutter the dovecotes.
I �m supposed to be going away late tomorrow afternoon overnight so I won �t be able to keep it running for quite 24 hours, but I �ll try to make sure that nominating the winner is the last thing I do before I leave. If I run out of time I �ll ask Mariethe to do the honors.
Have a wonderful Sunday all. Julia
|
14 Aug 2011
|
|
|
|
maryse pey�
|
|
Hi Julia dear !
I did not know you personally know Hagrid (1 of Hogwarts � important characters) and that is his kind of speaking !
It means �Flush to the dolent dove �s coasts ! �. As you know well he takes care of the magical creatures and the dove he is telling about is an invisible one... |
14 Aug 2011
|
|
|
teresapr
|
|
Try to distract and feed the doves! Have you already forgotten the movie? |
14 Aug 2011
|
|
|
|
|
douglas
|
|
It �s the war cry of an anti-magician league (AML), a league of people that are attempting to do away with the "evil" trickery and illusions that magicians perform. Most magicians are known to hide, among other things, doves in their coats so that hey suddenly appear at the most opportune time. For this reason, the AML has taken to calling magicians (i.e. David Copperfield, Chris Angel, Houdini, etc.) "dovecoats". To "flutter" the dovecoats is to send them fleeing (like the flutter of wings when doves take flight).
"Flutter the dovecotes!! Do away with this evil trickery!"
Cheers, Douglas |
15 Aug 2011
|
|
|
maryse pey�
|
|
the highest the bluer !
no flush ! no rush ! our feathers are brushed with light and sunbeams and we, doves have a perfectly and harmonicly coordinated flight...
Sounds great guys ! let �s take off too ! Flight Up Short to the Doves to Coordinate ! and we will feel lighter and brighter ! |
15 Aug 2011
|
|
|
Mariethe House
|
Not very much inspired my dear Julia.
Flutter reminds me of Charlotte ...once she was wearing a lovely long dress made of that sort of material that rustles when you touch it ( taffetas?) and she was running in the tall grass here in the mountains, changing directions all the time, her blonde hair like feathers flying around her face. A little dove fluttering in the tall grass. Sorry , no idea about the dovecotes. She is so free!
|
15 Aug 2011
|
|
|
