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You're right-- #1 is a typo for seat . #2-- it is all Biercean humour. The conceit is that emotions just come from the food we eat, so that tender beefsteaks digest and become tender feelings, caviar becomes a fancy and then an epigram, a hard-boiled egg becomes contrition, a creampuff...

Would you like to read Agatha Cristie? The language of her books is more or less simple, but it is perfectly fine - including many current idioms and informal expressions. I did learn a lot of new useful vocabulary from her stories in due course.

Idioms are... idioms. They usually can't be "explained". "Idiom" is short for "idiomatic expression", for they are peculiar to a given language. Nevertheless you can be creative when using idioms. I recall watching a play in which a male character excuses himself saying "Sorry, I have to see a...

You're welcome. And if you are also interested in the idioms, proverbs and expressions that have similar meaning using similar words in English and Persian, have a look at the post number 88751. You can also add your own comments there.

Hi! I haven't explored this section yet, and what you've written seems very interesting! I'll read them later. I think .. there are surely something I can add from my native idiom! There's one my favorite phrasal expression in Russian : . It means literally or something like that. And it...

Hi again, Yes they are different from our carpets, but very similar to our miniature, another beautiful art work of Persians! Actually they have the same design and patterns, just this one is on wood, and miniature is on paper! My list of interests has not finished yet! Actually I've opened up...

Hi Well Pieanne, I guess I understand what you are saying; I guess all the languages have such expression, even tribal languages...and I think it's fair enough. To those who are conservative, I guess it makes sense, it may be their pride..It can be also seen as a mean for assessing people's...

An idiom is an expression, which cannot be changed, and whose words, should you translate them word by word, wouldn't make sense in any other language. That fixed expression corresponds to a fixed meaning to the ears of the interlocutor. Does it make sense?

I don't think the "opportunity" meaning of "to get to do something" enters into this question, but rather "I've got to do something" meaning "I have to do something". I think that maybe only the British use the past tense of "I've got to do it": "I had got to do it" = "I had to do it". And...

Firstly why do you call me 'a trustful member'? !!! Lastly I couldn't make out the meaning of your idiom - 'to add a few lines & a few kilos to the pic'. ( Is it a Idiom? If not, what is the meaning of the expression?).