Meaning can often be complicated through the use of metaphors, idioms, or simply through ambiguous relationships between words. What are the actual meanings of the first two idioms below? What are the possible meanings of the next ambiguous sentences?
Bite your tongue To use your teeth agains your tongue/ To remain quiet
Pull my leg A request for you to pull my leg/ To trick someone
He is my English teacher He teaches me English/ He comes from England
I saw the person with a telescope I used a telescope to see him/ He was with a telescope when I saw him
She doesn’t like short men or women She doesn't like short men and short women/ She doesn't like short men and any kind of women
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