Monday, May 12, 2008

Can you afford an arm and a leg?


Another fun IDIOM to illustrate was arm and a leg. This was kinda tricky because this could easily become macabre. I decided to use mannequin parts.

2 comments:

toac said...

what exactly was this project of yours? I'm an ESL teacher and i haven't been having much luck finding illustrated idioms. was this a published work? how can i get my hands on more of these? they're brilliant!

Dave James said...

I did these for the company I work for Lakeshore Learning. Go to http://lakeshorelearning.com and type "LL405X" in the search field.

The series is called Tricky Words and Phrases: Multiple Meanings, Idioms & Homophones.

Dave