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Dear Angi,Rumor has it that.. is an idiom, a colloquial expression.All in all, idioms usually don't make much sense to the listener's ear.

Caroline, unfortunately there's no formula or rule of thumb that will help you. You'll just have to learn each expression and idiom individually.CB

Words do not come singly .We have probably spent a long time learning new words .Words, however, do not just come individualy,they also come in expressions.There are thousands of them in English: I could eat a horse ,Money does not grow on trees, It is not up to scratch, I got there in the...

Hello Dudumuzik, Welcome to the forums. A transitive verb requires a direct object. You picked a hard one - grammatically, we don't say "I knocked the door." There is an expression "knock wood," but it's an idiom. Was your question specifically about the verb "to knock" or about transitive...

Hi,some expressions are just idiomatic, so you have to use them as they are. Don't worry about grammar when you come across idioms. It's like "me neither": no one thinks why it's that way, they just use it because it's idiomatic.As for "Prince and me", that's a title. If you post a picture of you...

Hi, Englishsz. The idiom you want is not "fair cheating;" it's "no fair." "No fair" is a very informal, colloquial way of saying "it's not fair" -- so the sentence means "It's not fair to cheat on that Spanish final (exam)" or "Cheating on the Spanish final is not fair." It's mostly an...

Hi again, Another small comment. . . . you do these sorts of mischievous acts. I'll send you packing. mischievous acts This is a very formal phrase for a mother to use in talking to her kids. It sounds quite wrong. send you packing This idiom seems very old-fashioned. I think most kids today...

Colloquial usage - it does not literally mean running, but that there is a strip of land along the length of the river.This is one of those English idioms that you will have to take on face value. It is an expression that is much used.

But if you say something I don't know yet, a word, an idiom, whatever, then I don't understand (my brain doesn't associate that with anything)I know exactly what you're talking about. After several months of talking Italian with my Italian tutor, I was really getting the hang of it, and she...

Hi Doll Sometimes the easiest way to deal with some of these remnants of older forms is simply to treat the expressions as "idioms". For example, another remnant is the expression "Be that as it may". Most native speakers would be at a complete loss to explain the grammar of that to you. Most...