Week 17

Clean as a Whistle

• Someone who whistles when they talk; speech difficulty

• • Completely free from dirt; perfectly neat.

• Someone who whistles when they work

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Chip on Your Shoulder

• • To be quarrelsome, aggressive, or rude; to be ready to fight.

• Someone who has been microchipped

• A shoulder injury

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

True-Blue

• The primary color of blue with no yellow or red added

• Someone who is always sad.

• • Very loyal, dependable, and faithful.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Nitty-gritty

• The practical details; the fundamental core of something.

• Grainy or gritty liquid substances.

• The specific heart of the matter.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Nickel-and-Dime

• A bunch or change together.

• Unimportant; small time; trivial; petty.

• Something made from metals melted together.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

• It is necessary to listen to your mother, mother knows best.

• Women/Mothers are more creative and wise.

• Inventiveness or creativity is stimulated by need or difficulty

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Elapse

• To finish quickly, laps ahead.

• for time to pass or go by

• To forget

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Wended

• • go slowly in a certain direction

• To get married

• To bend

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Despicable

• To spit

• very small

• deserving hatred

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Senile

• to see some far off

• weakness of old age

• to be in denial

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4