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When I was a child, I used to hear the term "thanks a whole bunch" with some frequency, and this would seem to be a variation. I believe it is a colloquialism from the southern US. Never heard the term "some grandpa." Your interpretation makes sense. Third year students are "juniors," and the...

Thank you so mush. I've found such synonyms for "daydreaming" as "to be lost in reveries" and "to have one's mind wandering". Generally I use Google to make sure if a certain expression exists in English, for the word-for-word translation of Russian idioms, colloquialisms and metaphors of my own...

Anonymous wrote:Hello,I'm Andrea...I'm from Peru and I need some help to present a Research Project about slang...You're a native english speaker,aren't you?...If you are,tell me : do you think that a person who is learning english as a foreign language should learn how to use slang also? I...

Hi, Here are a few comments. Slang Informal speech, often used in a special context or by a special group, eg informal speech by computer progarmmers. Phrase This is just a grammar term, meaning a few connected words, but not in the form of a clause Idiom A common phrase or saying that has...

what's the diiference between Slang、Phrase、Idiom、Stree Talk、Colloquialism?

Thanks, CJ! For us non-natives who are reasonably fluent with the language, colloquialisms are where we lose out, and that's where EF helps us the most! Cheers, - Joy.

Hi, You have a lot of these. Here are some very brief comments. prim and proper fastidious, ceareful, neat to and fro from one place to another, and back again, repetitively odds and ends miscellaneous, unimportant, unrelated things hard and fast clearly defined, not easily changed,...

Dear Sir/Madam It would be my grateful if anyone else can enlighten me the meanings of these colloquial pairs prim and proper to and fro odds and ends hard and fast tooth and nail down and out length and breadth safe and sound ins and outs cloak and...

Thanks, Paco and Nona the Brit. I'm very pleased with the much detailed etymology, Paco. The word I've heard and seen is spelt Dutch, Nona. According to one of my dictionaries, Dutch meaning German is U.S. colloquialism. It may be infrequently used even in the U.S..... Hiro/ Sendai, Japan

Hello, I am interested in international finance and overall business. I think that you would benefit from conversing with me because I am absolutely frank. I would be able to give you an oppurtunity to get used to American English colloquialisms (sp) (that means I don't know if the spelling is...