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Here are what I found from different resources trying to explain the origins of different expressions starting with "holy -". Hope that it helps. --- holy mackerel - exclamation of surprise - A blasphemous oath from the same 'family' as goddam and darn it, etc. Holy Mackerel dates...

No, Khoff, no such idiom in French. It's in Spanish, as CJ pointed out. Same as never translate 'beurre" by "burro", for a "burro" is a donkey. Maybe they use the same expression in HK? Or the book was written by a Spanish?

First of all, please allow me to introduce myself. My name's Luis, I'm 21, from São Paulo/Brazil. I've been an English enthusiastic for years and now, I have myself a project and for this personal project, I must to speak english fluently. To prove my english skills, I'm going to take the IELTS...

Hello Hela A1) Sylvester cried his eyes out. A2) The dog barked him awake. A3) Dora shouted herself hoarse. A4) My mistress grumbled herself calm. "Cry one's eyes out"(#A1) and "shout oneself hoarse"(#A3) are idioms. "Grumble oneself calm"(#A4) is not so popular as an idiom but it was a...

I got some sentence from the song: "Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else" But I can't understand the meaning of this expression. Could somebody help me and explain it in clear text ? I think it belows to idioms or so.. (Full text of the song is here:...

itman, You shouldn't use "You almost killed yourself" for the idiomatic Persian meaning! You should use it only when it is literally true, for example, if someone runs out into traffic and is nearly struck by a car, you can certainly say "You almost killed yourself" or "You nearly got...

Hi Meantolearn, I find this very funny because my sister often tells me to get my butt in gear! Sometimes she tells me to get my fat butt in gear! I can almost hear her sweet voice now... "Get your fat butt in gear or we'll be late! Come on, we haven't got all day!" All of the meanings...

I'm unclear about what exactly you don't understand in the expression, " three ineradicable mistakes in his mind" . davkett, if you didn't read the novel you probably take this expression literally, then this expression is as clear (for me) as 2+2=4. What is not clear is a...

Hi! I'm looking for a similar phrase, word or expression, perhaps an idiom conveying the sense: It is possible to end negotiations by getting off worse than you were before entering negotiations. Thank you

Hello, I'm Julia, a philologist, teacher, translator and what not... I adore learning foreign languages and communicating with native speakers, but nowadays I am working in a small company with little possibilities of using my knowledge, so I try to practice languages reading books in the...