ALT An illustration of a happy camel in a pink patterned saddle blanket standing on sand dunes under a teal sky and licking a giant ice cream sundae topped with a cherry. Text reads 'Confusing Words in English' and 'desert (sand) is not the same as dessert (sweet)'.
ALT A Tudor-style oil portrait of a bearded nobleman in a white lace ruff and dark velvet and gold robes, with crumbs in his beard, frowning at a layered berry cake with a slice missing on a silver plate, with candles and a gilt frame in the dark background. Text reads "You can't have your cake and eat it" and 'meaning: you can't have both when getting one means losing the other.'
ALT A watercolour-style illustration of a boy on a snowy British doorstep wearing a puffy green coat, three scarves, teal mittens and an orange woolly hat pulled over his eyes, with his arms stuck out at his sides, while his mum smiles from the doorway holding a mug of tea. A text box reads 'phrasal verb: wrap up' and "It's freezing! Wrap up warm!", with 'meaning: to put on lots of warm clothes.'
ALT A watercolour-style museum gallery with a floppy disk, a red rotary telephone, a cassette tape and a typewriter in glass cases behind red velvet rope barriers on brass posts, with gilt-framed paintings, a bust and an ornate rug. A text box reads 'The Museum of Things We Still Say' and 'FunkyEnglish.com'.
ALT A watercolour-style illustration of a rainy British back garden at dusk, where a man in wellies and a waxed jacket crouches with his hands over his ears beside a small firework in a flowerpot that is only fizzing and smoking, while a woman holding a mug, a boy in a blue hood holding a sparkler and an older man in a flat cap watch from under an umbrella, and a terrier yawns beside them. A text box reads 'idiom: a damp squib' and "Well, that was a damp squib!"
ALT A clay-animation style office scene in which a smiling manager in a brown tweed jacket hands back a report covered in red pen to a young man in a white shirt and blue tie, who gives a cheerful thumbs up while a colleague in a purple cardigan stands behind them with her hand over her face. Text reads 'English at work', 'What your boss REALLY means', and "Quite good." (It wasn't.), with 'FunkyEnglish.com'.
ALT A watercolour-style illustration of a tired man with curly hair resting his cheek on his hand at a lamp-lit desk at night, with a laptop and a sleeping tabby cat, as a swirl of blue light carries browser windows, books, a floppy disk, a cassette tape and a black rotary telephone around a white rabbit in a waistcoat holding a pocket watch. A text box reads 'idiom: go down a rabbit hole' and "One quick search? I've gone down a rabbit hole again.", with 'meaning: to get lost exploring a topic for hours.'
ALT A vintage-style painting of three smiling children in Halloween costumes, two in pointed black witch hats and dark outfits and a blonde girl with a hair bow holding a small carved pumpkin, with a boy on the right carrying a pumpkin bucket, against a plain beige background. Text reads 'dress up', 'phrasal verb', 'to put on special clothes to look like someone or something else' and 'We're dressing up as witches this year!'
ALT A watercolour-style illustration of a tired man with curly hair resting his cheek on his hand at a lamp-lit desk at night, with a laptop and a sleeping tabby cat, as a swirl of blue light carries browser windows, books, a floppy disk, a cassette tape and a black rotary telephone around a white rabbit in a waistcoat holding a pocket watch. A text box reads 'idiom: go down a rabbit hole' and "One quick search? I've gone down a rabbit hole again.", with 'meaning: to get lost exploring a topic for hours.'
ALT A watercolour-style illustration of a smiling new barista in a green apron holding a portafilter at an espresso machine that is spraying milk foam, with a customer checking a pocket watch and a queue behind him, and cakes under glass domes on the counter. A text box reads 'idiom: fake it till you make it' and "First day? Just fake it till you make it!", with 'meaning: to act confident until you really are.'
ALT An illustration of a nervous man in a brown tweed coat clutching a paper bag and glancing sideways at a tall, grinning shopkeeper leaning over a wooden counter in an old-fashioned shop, with a black cat sitting on the counter staring at the customer, shelves of tins and jars of sweets behind them. A text box reads ‘idiom: give someone the creeps’ and ‘That shopkeeper gives me the creeps.’
ALT A black, white and green comic-style illustration of a tense poker table, with a man's wide eyes peering over a fan of cards on the left, a hand reaching across the green felt, an ace of spades lying on the table and stacks of poker chips beside it. Text reads 'idiom: an ace up your sleeve', 'Sam wasn't nervous about the job interview. He had an ace up his sleeve: a glowing reference from the CEO.' and 'meaning: a secret advantage that you keep hidden until you need it.'
