Hello, I'm looking for an expression meaning food products other than meat and products needed in a typical household or simply stuff that you can find in an ordinary shop. Here's the context: In most retail shops, along with our meat

(He ripped one over the fence.) This made me think of another similar expression "he ripped a good one", which I shall assume has quite a different connotation, right? Sorry, just couldn't help myself.

1.What does 'He's wound up tighter than a drum' mean? It's a mixed metaphor/simile for tension, but it used to be quite popular. The coil springs which powered old fashioned toys were wound up with a key. We used to wind our

Hi, what does the slang english expression school leaver mean? I wouldn't call that 'slang'. A 'school leaver' is simply someone who leavesg school, usually because they have completed the time required.

Hi B.J! I think the underlined phrase stands for, in the first sentence They were supposed to deliver the flowers. or They should have delivered the flowers, in the second: "This screw should fit into the hole... . I think it is shortened in

I don't understand Underline sentence. Please give me another expression or phrases. Jue: They didn't deliver the flowers we ordered. Sue: Supposed to . Give them a call. Sally: This screw doesn't fit into hole number

"He walked as fast as the undergrowth and snowdrifts would allow " What is the justification for the conditional in the second half of the sentence? Tough question. In some ways, it is not really a conditional, but an expression of

Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Hello, Raja, It goes without saying that there is no blame in being a non-native speaker and a layperson in linguistic science, so

Hi, Sorry, but this is no better than before. No educated English speaker would write a letter like this with just one paragraph. And no university would bother to read it. They'd just throw it in the garbage. Do you care about

I wrote again. What do you think about that? DATE THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Dear Sir/Madam, At first, I was interested in chemistry in high school. After, I began to learn this lesson,