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Praveen, are you sure you're not pulling my leg? An idiom is a particular expression or phrase we use to mean something which is quite different from the literal meaning of the phrase.

e.g. "I thought Praveen was asking a serious question, but he was only pulling my leg!"

Praveen, if my morale were that easily affected, I wouldn't be using the site!! Thank you for your concern - that's really nice. No, I'll keep on using idioms, because they're fun!

Hi Praveen,

Sorry. "That sounds about right" -literally it means, as you have read it, "that sounds approximately correct". I used it because I could not be certain that you were absolutely correct, just beacuse I didn't know about bhel poori and pani poori.

In another sense it can mean "That sounds exactly right"

"She lost her keys and locked herself out of the house again today" "That sounds about right"
In other words, we are talking about a very forgetful person, for whom locking herself out of the house is not unusual.

When I said "Praveen, are you sure you're not pulling my leg?" it was because you asked me what an idiom was, but you used a perfect idiom in your question!

Praveen, don't worry about it. It's very difficuly when you can't see or hear the person you are talking to. You can't see us smile, which is why we often use the little smiley face. But even if we don't use it, it doesn't mean we are not pleased to talk to you!

A. is correct, except for the capital letter for Ramu - but that might be a mistake using the keyboard ("a typo")

B.No, he isn't. Now-a-days, he is not coming to see us AT ALL.

keep on using the idioms!

I'm assuming that Ramu is a name, in which case it would need a capital letter "R". You may have intended to put the capital R, but mistyped it, and put 'r' instead. that is called a typographical error, or "typo" for short.