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Just a quck note first on "scratching": "From scratch" means from raw materials. I bake cookies from scratch, and never buy the frozen dough. It's a fixed idiom, and you can't change it around. Produce is what comes right from the farm: Raw, unpeeled, etc. Once...

Question: When people say 'last time I checked' did they really check or is it just an idiom?Question: Did someone really say that to A before A made the cookies? I believe it's just an idiom.Both are idioms. CJ

A: They are stealing the food. B:Last time I checked the food was free. Question: When people say 'last time I checked' did they really check or is it just an idiom? A: Who said making cookies was difficult? Question: Did someone really say that to A before A made the cookies? I believe...

Hi David, Just so you know, you can search Google by typing in things like "taken for a ride" idiom Taken for a ride means someone has fooled you or cheated you, perhaps taken money from you in the process. turns out simply means how a situation resolves itself, or how a product is. I'm making...