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Re: the joke's on you

Hi NL888"The joke's on you" is an expression that normally means "You (rather than somebody else) are the victim of a joke." or "You are the one we are laughing at"."Busted tees" is not an idiom, but it is a play on words here.A "tee" is a T-shirt. It might also be a golf tee. There is also the...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yankee 202 days ago Plurals Expressions Jokes Idioms

The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes is travelling in a Volga car along the Volga river to take a snapshot of life in Vladimir Putin's Russia, as the presidential election looms. This is his third piece, from the city of Ulyanovsk. For those peculiar individuals who still mourn the loss of the...

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Re: please check these sentences

Anonymous wrote: Hi Avangi, thank you for your response. May I ask you some more questions: 1.Can we say got rich, become rich and became rich? These are all fine. 2.Do you mean we don't say 'get wealthy' or got wealthy? Can we say became wealthy? Became wealthy is more common than got...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Avangi 209 days ago Expressions Jokes
Re: I have Problems understanding English dvd movies

Hi David,2 x 3 = 6 movies in 2 days! LOL, that's a lot!Anyway... David Little wrote:My problem is i could"nt understand the dialogues properly without the sub-title turned on....hmm, ok, let's try this. Try to answer this question.When you don't understand, you turn the subtitles on. After you...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Kooyeen 277 days ago Accents Pronunciation Vocabulary Jokes Expressions
What's the meaning of "I won't starve you"?

Let's say if students need more assignments, and their teacher tell them by joke that "I won't starve you" which means don't worry, you guys won't "hungry" because of lacking of assignments.Is it a propriate expression?When can we use this sentence?Thank you!

Topic of the Moment! by Fenglu 328 days ago Jokes Expressions
Re: slip you into self-complacency

Thank you, Bluepalms, for the correction. I agree, it should be "them," not "you."It's from a translation of an interview (in Japanese); a rough context is...___________________________________________________A. ...So I think it's natural for us to try to show that we're better than others....

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by Feathers 328 days ago Expressions Interviews Jokes Translation
Re: chew the fat

Hi TerrThere is a Finnish joke that involves your expression. Finns aren't known as great talkers and people living in a certain area (Häme) are exceptionally quiet. Two friends living there went to have a drink after a hard day's work. They sat drinking their beers quietly for five minutes....

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by Cool Breeze 357 days ago Expressions Jokes
Re: Wannabees both?

examples of slang that has changed in large amounts over just a few months? That wouldn't even be long enough for the slang terms to seep into the general consciousness. Many 'specialty groups', especially adolescents and criminals, use their own slang only within their own peer group. By...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by CalifJim 359 days ago Expressions Jokes
Re: When you've seen one Stradivarius

When you've seen one X, you've seen them all. = All X's are the same. There's nothing to be impressed by if you've seen one. This expression is similar to another saying: "They're a dime a dozen". The joke is that Stradivarius violins are rare and expensive, certainly nothing any...

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by CalifJim 1 yr 36 days ago Expressions Jokes
Re: When you've seen one Stradivarius

The joke here, though, is that Stradivarius violins are VERY rare and VERY valuable. So although "Seen one, seen 'em all" is a very common thing to say, in this case, this expression doesn't apply at all - which is where the joke comes in.

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by Grammar Geek 1 yr 36 days ago Expressions Jokes

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