Greetings, Changeling, If you notch up something such as a score or total, you achieve it. It is mainly used in journalism. Perhaps you should think of another way of presenting the same idea, as the collocation with clothing line is not a

Personally I find a very useful method to be to get learners to watch English-language films, news reports, or even YouTube short-form video; get them to jot down words or expressions (more often than not colloquialisms) that they don't

Yes, this is fine. The use of "however" presupposes some contrasting statement, "however," This is the same use of "extent" to which I objected. I suppose it qualifies as a colloquialism. I may be wrong. I'll look

Let me ask a question about the following sentence. They really knocked our radars back with white noise. (p475,Red Rising ... thing back I don't know what movement the thing will get by being knocked back, especially when it is radar. Thanks

I'm not sure this is actually directly an issue of ... grammatically correct English but never say "please" and "thank you". But would it still be proper English? I think that there is more to speaking a language than just

Okay, so this one time? In band camp? Skitt was all, like: It's a colloquialism not to be used in formal writing. A well-established colloquialism though...slightly more rustic would be "it don't make me no never mind" (where the