Hi all, In a letter by Katherine Mansfield I come across the following passage: 'When you came to tea this afternoon you took a brioche broke it in half & padded the inside doughy bit with two fingers'. Could you tell me

To buy something means to go to the store and purchase it. But there's also an idiom, "to buy something," which means to accept, or believe something which a person tells you. (This is the meaning of your example: "Hey! Did you

From Paper 1 (Reading) of the CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English) of the University of Cambridge , Part 1 . In this part candidates are asked to read three extracts and to answer a total of 18 questions, six per extract. Here are some

From Paper 1 (Reading) of the CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English) of the University of Cambridge , Part 1 . In this part candidates are asked to read three extracts and to answer a total of 18 questions, six per extract. Here are some

The idiom is you had better not try but in other contexts you'd may mean you would. CB

What is the meaning of " come through the rye" ?

No sorry. I wasn't going for a metaphor or idiom of any sort just a sentence I wanted corrected.

when they were discribing cars, they said: Cornering : does it hug the road or does it wallow about ? 1. Is wallow about an idiom? I can only find some reference in british style. 2. In this context, when discribing cars, what does

what What does the idiom hit it off mean ? You must learn to capitalize the first word of the sentence and end your sentence with some punctuation. Otherwise people won't believe that you know anything about English! hit it off means

No idea. It is not an idiom I am familiar with.