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Ahaa! I see what you're talking about.We use the idiom "sell off my assets" but I've never heard "dispose off my assets." I think perhaps because you may sell a few at a time, but to dispose of, or to liquidate assets refers to the whole package. Well, that's...

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From Paper 1 (Reading) of the CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English) of the University of Cambridge, Part 1. In this part candidates are asked to read three extracts and to answer a total of 18 questions, six per extract.Here are some directions and suggestions given in the CPE handbook for...

A: Let's go over there and see whether they rent kayaks. B: It seems like nobody is guarding the booth. Maybe they are closed today. (what conjuction word/phrase should I use here). It has been raining for the past 3 days and there still are rain clouds in the sky. A: We'll see. I...

I was trying to write a formal english letter at my workplace. And I was writing, pls send the document to our end at an early date. Could someone help me if I used the right sentence? Or should I say, Expecting an early from your end. And another question I would like to ask is, when it comes...

"To phase out" is sort of an idiom for gradually eliminating something over a period of time. "We're in the final phase" is this case would mean we're in that phase which sees something finally disappear. If something is currently phased out, then the...

Hi OpenmindHave you ever considered changing your moniker to "DoubtingThomas"? (Just teasing you a little!)To put it in the simplest possible terms, using 'of' instead of 'to' when telling time is basically simply a matter of replacing the word 'to' with the...

Hi KotoI realise you may never read this but I'll post it just the same. Not all European languages are related. My native language, Finnish, isn't even an Indo-European language. It is related to Estonian and Hungarian but not to such Germanic languages as English, German, Danish,...

Thank you for making me actually think about some of the idioms we take for granted. The meaning is the same as saying, The rumour is..." (Rumor is the American spelling, rumour is the British spelling) - and that is what people 'hear' when someone uses those words, rather than the individual...

Hey, If you want to know the origin of this one, it was used in a very literal meaning. Here... Rain check: ticket for rescheduled event: a ticket or ticket stub entitling somebody to attend an event canceled because of rain at a later rescheduled time. Here is the idiom in which one can use...