Postcard from...Down Under

To NHK class

Hi all,

I'm looking forward to all your travel presentations & slideshows in 2012. Let's study hard & make some progress?

Me? Had a brilliant holiday; family, food, wine, sea, sun, surf - couldn't be better!

There'll be a test on Aussie idioms next lesson.

Jim xxx

Paragraph using idioms

When I entered university, I lived in a small town near Tokyo. That was the first time I lived alone. I felt it was a feather in my cap. I had nothing but a small bicycle. But I felt happy every day. I wasn’t afraid to lose my shirt because I always lived on a shoestring. I didn’t become hot under the collar because everyone helped me kindly.

I found a part-time job in supermarket. The owner was a bit of a stuffed shirt. So I tried to keep his shirt on and to handle our customers with kid gloves.

The experience taught me a sense of responsibility.

Yuuki

Keep your shirt on!!

A paragraph using as many clothing idioms as possible.

He always lived on a shoestring, but one day he showed up to the party dressed to kill.
We all recognized that something had happened to him, but he kept it under his hat.
When we pushed him to talk about it, he got hot under the collar.
Actually he is the kind of person who has to be handled with kid gloves, which we had forgotten.

Sari