Unit 1 In the Morning

Unit 1 In the Morning

Wake up to awake, to arise from sleep

             Also: get up

             GRAMMAR/USAGE NOTES: These idioms can be used with or without an object. With an object, the idioms are separable. Get up literally means “ to get out of the bed”, which may happen some time after waking up.

             ▪ Ginger usually gets up before her parents, but this morning they had to wake her up.

             ▪ Sometimes after I wake up, I lie in bed for a while before I finally get up.

Crack of dawn the moment when sunlight is first seen in the mornig sky

             ▪ During the busy harvest season, farmers get up at the crack of dawn and don’t stop working until dusk.

Go off to sound, to ring

             USAGE NOTE: The subject is usually alarm or buzzer.

             ▪ When the alarm goes off in the morning, I jump out of bed immediately.

             ▪ Jack was late to work because he didn’t hear the buzzer go off.

Not sleep a wink to get no sleep (or very little sleep) during the night

             USAGE NOTE: The negative term hardly can substitute for not.

             ▪ The Wilsons couldn’t sleep a wink the first night they spent in their new house.

             ▪ The children were so excited about opening presents on Christmas Day that they hardly slept a wink on Christmas Eve.

Sleep like a log to sleep very well

             Also: sleep like a baby

             ▪ I didn’t wake up once las night. I must have slept like a log.

             ▪ Maria can sleep like a baby in almost any place, including airplanes and cars.

Take a shower to shower

             Related idiom: take a bath(to bathe)

             ▪ After easy exercise I take a shower, but after serious exercise I take a bath to relax my muscles.

Get ready to prepare oneself by getting dressed, eating breakfast, and so on

             ▪ It takes Linda about an hour to get ready for work if she hurries.

             ▪ The first thing I do to get ready in the morning is to shave.

Get someone going to stimulate into action

             GRAMMAR/USAGE NOTES: This idiom is used when someone is slow to act in the morning. A reflexive pronoun can also be used.

             ▪ There’s nothing like a good cup of coffee to get me going in the morning.

             ▪ Charlie likes to jog every morning to get himself going.

Start the day off (right) to begin the day with something good

             ▪ I usually start the day off by having some tea and reading the newspaper.

             ▪ Some people like to exercise to start the day off right.

Sleep in to stay in bed late in the morning

             ▪ On the weekends, many people like to sleep in.

             ▪ Josh chose to sleep in after staying up late the night before.