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Hi! Actually, believe it or not the exam is HUGE. I have a list of thousand or so expressions, idioms, proverbs, terms to learn. I'm not so sure about the next book, beacause I think I'll have to find a job, you know, a ''REAL'' job. Translating books is great but you never know when you'll get...

Praveen, do you read novels in English? It might help, you write down some idioms/expressions, and then try to use them

even though it is "cochon d'Inde" in french, the translation in english is not a word-for-word translation, but the meaning remains the same. "quarantained" means "mettre en quarantaine", to make sure your pet is not carrying viruses or diseases when landing in the UK. and if I can correct you,...

I'd call it an idiom, and I'd use it to describe a scene of confusion involving many different people, a scene in which something is being accomplished because the players know their roles thoroughly but in which the outsider is totally confused from his lack of understanding of the process. ...

hello, i would like to ask if the idiom "to take to one's heels" is in use and if it is popular, I would also like to if there are better (I mean more frequently used) idioms or expressions that can be used instead the above. Thanks

Idiom))-apple of one`s eye Meaning )- someone or something that one likes a lot. Example)-The little girl is the apple of her grandfather`s eye. __ Idiom))-back to the salt mines Meaning)- back to work, humorous expression to express going back to unpleasant work. ...

That is the whole point of an idion, Praveen! this is the definition from Cambridge advanced Learners' dictionary: "a group of words in a fixed order that have a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word understood on its own" And this is from Webster. "an...

OK - which is correct? I hear both used. I could care less. I couldn't care less. I am assuming that the second one is correct in indicating a lack of concern. ============ JTT: Both are correct, Robin and both mean, more or less, the same thing. While this might seem odd at...

Yogi's phrases remind me a bit of the expression "to put all your eggs in one basket." It sounds as if that may be the idiom he/she is searching for, but it doesn't mean "to classify as belonging to the same group." Perhaps "they're a dime a dozen" would work here.

Hello CJ Thanks for the reply. I googled the phrases "if I had/would have known that" and found about 10 % of people use "would have known" for "had known". What I'd like to know is the reason why those people are using "would have known" for "had known". The subjunctive past "had known" and...