Hi I checked my Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries, as well as Merriam-Webster, but found no reference to 'idea' in their definitions of a noun, so I don't know where you got your definition from. You might find it better to think

Hi, No. 'The rat race' is a derogatory way of referring to the competitive modern world of work. The idea is that all the workers are competitive people who are trying to beat each other in a selfish way. If you leave such an

The following is a line from a documentary film: "The Rockerafella fortune had begun over a hundred years earlier with Nelson's grandfather, John D Rockafella, the founder of the Standard Oil Corporation." I'm confused about the

Doesn't anyone find mistakes? Because there could be a lot of them. :/ Or does anyone has any ideas how to make it better or something? I must return this letter tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. I actually change my text just a little bit

There was a thread awhile ago about "atomic noir" movies that mixed film noir with themes of atomic anxiety and there was some reference to a movie about some people being held hostage in an abandoned town about to be destroyed by an

Hi! I am going to apply for an exchange student program and we have to write a letter of motivation for that. I am from Finland and I haven't been writing anything in English for a looong time, so I'm wondering if somebody could be so kind

Most of the references I find are in connection with a brain lesion malfunction which renders the subject unable to use language. It's called "aphasia." http://www.answers.com/topic/aphasia "Verbing" is a function which is

Hi Coloraday I wasn't completely sure about "liars", but it sounds like the word he was saying, and it seems like a good fit in the context. To me, the final sound seems to be a sort of mix of S and Z -- i.e. not clearly one or the

Hi This is what I hear 1. Might have been a failing of mine to tend to sort of talk down to him ‘cause I’d known him as a younger kid 2. And somewhere, it might be around … it’s in Liverpool somewhere that record, that’s the

i've got to do something or i've got a sore throat... these are examples of bad grammar slipping into american slang. Sorry, Anon, but the expression "have got to do something" (meaning "must do something") is quite