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Cool Breeze wrote Inchoateknowledge wrote Where did I go wrong Hi InchoYou went wrong by being too theoretical and logical English is the promised language of exceptions and inconsistency It abounds in all manner of expressions that were ungrammatical to begin with After they have been used long...

Inchoateknowledge wrote Where did I go wrong Hi InchoYou went wrong by being too theoretical and logical English is the promised language of exceptions and inconsistency It abounds in all manner of expressions that were ungrammatical to begin with After they have been used long enough they...

Don t run on the wall is not a standard idiom perhaps it had a specific meaning in the context of the play Two similar expressions would be to hit the wall which can be used metaphorically to describe reaching your emotional or physical limits and don t run before you can walk meaning take your...

Teo wrote He is punctual over the left The sentence is quoted from A Dcitionary of English Collocations published in 1997 It is compiled by some Chinese professors of English at Soochow University According to the Chinese explanation over the left means just the opposite a rude expression Anyway...

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McGraw Hill s Dictionary of American Idioms by Richard A Spears

They are incorrect because they break the rules of English grammar The idiom is to know better than The word than is part of the expression The words I had difficulty trouble a problem a hard time are followed by an ing word CJ

As a part of my research on English language I am working on animal idioms I would be grateful if some of you could once again answer a few questions conserning the subject 1 Can an animal idiom be concerned as formal Are there some used typically informal are some more used in writing ex brave...

1 A pen is not mightier than a sword at all The pen is mightier than the sword is an idiom and means communication is more powerful than fighting Never mind the structure of it 2 I m a human means physically human your body or a member of the human race The expressions I m human or I m only human...

Hi Peter if you know English well you should easily understand when they talk If you don t understand that means there s something wrong with your English I have trouble understanding too but I realized that s because my English is not as good as it should be in order to understand most of what...