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Reflexive Idioms



spinney
United Kingdom

Reflexive Idioms
 
Hi People!
I was wondering if I could pick your brains. I have a class coming up where I have to introduce and practice fixed expressions and idioms that use reflexive pronouns. So far I have, "pat oneself on the back, pick oneself up, to help oneself, can�t help oneself (referring to obsession or addiction)  to pinch oneself, to shoot oneself in the foot, take oneself too seriously."
Any ideas? I was also thinking of doing reflexive phrasal verbs to go along with this.  

7 Mar 2020      





redcamarocruiser
United States

This is an interesting idea for a fun lesson. You�ve outdone yourself, Dale.
 
"to pull oneself up by one�s bootstraps"
"Who helped themselves to my pie?"
Do well for oneself
Beat yourself up
 Feel like oneself again
Bring it on oneself
Make yourself at home
Drag yourself
Get over yourself
 
" 

7 Mar 2020     



spinney
United Kingdom

Thank you, Mary. Very useful list of expressions you have drawn up there. Let�s hope I get enough time to knock something up before Wednesday. 

8 Mar 2020     



adkal
Slovakia

Will these help?
 
laugh oneself silly 
spread oneself too thin
behave oneself
keep themselves to themselves
make an exhibition of yourself
 
Andrea 

8 Mar 2020     



FrauSue
France

And how about:
To take a long hard look at oneself
To sort oneself out
 

8 Mar 2020     



ldthemagicman
United Kingdom

To talk to oneself.

To refuse to listen to oneself. 

To be too hard on oneself.
To be too easy on oneself. 
To think well of oneself.
To think badly of oneself.
To make a fool of oneself.
To avoid making a fool of oneself. 
To make oneself out to be a hero.
To avoid making oneself out to be a hero. 
To give oneself some good advice.
To give oneself some bad advice.
To flatter oneself.
To insult oneself.
To praise oneself.
To criticise oneself.
To laugh at oneself.
To refuse to laugh at oneself.
To be pleased with oneself.
To be annoyed with oneself.
To put oneself on a pedestal.
To put oneself in the waste bin.
 Etc.
 
I hope that these help.
 
Les Douglas 

8 Mar 2020     



cunliffe
United Kingdom

Are you feeling pretty pleased with yourself, Les? Putting yourself on the line. 

8 Mar 2020     



ldthemagicman
United Kingdom

This group of sentences, like my previous submission, depend on the opinion and the attitude of the speaker or writer.

 

 
Les Douglas 

8 Mar 2020     



kohai
Latvia

Amazing! I thought that reflexive pronouns are used quite rarely in English!
 
Here is the fantastic link provided by Les once again:
 
Thank you all so much! 
kohai 

8 Mar 2020     



ldthemagicman
United Kingdom

Here is a link which gives you 694 example sentences, which contain the word "oneself".

 

 
This website opens with an empty box.
Type in the box, one word.
oneself.
Left Click,
Find matching strings.
Then,
Left Click,
oneself.
You will see example sentences which contain the word,
"oneself".
 
I hope that this helps you.
 
Les Douglas 
 
 
 

9 Mar 2020     



spinney
United Kingdom

Wow! Thanks so much to everyone for being so generous with their time. I now have a shed load of material to be getting on with. I am going to leave the phrasal verbs for a week or two but I will be using some of those idioms. And thank you to Lez for providing those wonderful sites. 

9 Mar 2020