I see that native speakers "just guess" very often. Thank God! Because in some cases I am pretty sure you can't hear some sounds, or they are different than expected for some reason... But native speakers know what might make sense

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Good evening, I am sure L y not suggesting that bizarre kind of thing; besides, as I have already pointed out, this comedy of manners by Shaw is very neat and precise stylistically. Given that I respect your views on the subject, I advise you to

the matter means wrong in the idiom "for something to be the matter", so the matter acts like an adjective. Idioms often don't make sense when each word is examined separately; they have to be taken as a specific group of words with

In #2, 'buy' destroys the effect of 'sell' as an idiom, I think– but that is a question of style. Your sentences are natural.

Well, post some idioms here and we will help you.

Hi dear sir/madam I am an Iranian. I work as a translator and at the moment I am working on children story book. There are some idioms in the book which are really difficult to translate because I dont have any reference to find them.

Only sick can be used attributively, in other words, before a noun: a sick person. In British English, sick is often used to refer to nausea or other rather mild problems with one's health while ill denotes something serious which may require

'past careful' doesn't make any sense as an idiom - but it might make sense in a certain context perhaps. Where did you see it?

Many thanks for your reply and recommendation. It helps a lot. Your list of auxiliaries seems all right, but I would not include used to . I thought it’s just an idiom, but my grammar book and Longman dictionary tell me it’ is