'Hear English' is a blog that provides podcasts, transcripts and other materials to help people learn English. Find us at http://hearenglishhere.blogspot.com/.My students all drew monsters for a short exercise. The monsters they drew were excellent and they agreed to write about them for this blog. Our first monster is from Coralie Altmeyer:
The name of my monster is Darkness of Absurdity
Description:
My monster is supposed to be a night terror, but, from all appearances, he likes to laugh. But, it does not work because he instills physical fear. My monster is lonely, sad and abandoned.
It is the darkness!
"To instill fear" or "to instil fear" means "to make people feel
fear"; "to make people scared".
Here are some other ways of using the word "fear" in English:
To overcome fear – to stop being scared
To live in fear – to always be frightened
He didn’t go in for fear of waking the monster – he didn’t go in to avoid / because he
was scared of waking the monster
To prickle with fear – to have a tingling feeling because
you are scared
To put the fear of God into someone – to really frighten
someone
To fear that someone is wrong – to believe that someone is
wrong
To fear for someone’s health – to be worried about someone’s
health
Never fear – do
not worry (often used ironically)
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread – inexperienced or rash people will do things
that wiser people are more cautious of
