(He ripped one over the fence.) This made me think of another similar expression "he ripped a good one", which I shall assume has quite a different connotation, right? Sorry, just couldn't help myself.

Hi, Sorry, but this is no better than before. No educated English speaker would write a letter like this with just one paragraph. And no university would bother to read it. They'd just throw it in the garbage. Do you care about

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

Ooh, what's wrong, right clothes for inhibitions? / You couldn't afford the price of admission. Now the girl in this scene is wearing black body-fitting clothes. So is the guy telling her the clothes are not just for looking and she

"Filipinisms are words or phrases that are ususally grammatically incorrect or are almost always results of transliteration." Filipinism (Correct Usage) 1. Free subscription of... (Free subscription to…) - prepo issue 2. Can I

First of all, I am very sorry for my mistake. I did not know that. And I really thank you for replying to my question even though there was a rude expression. Regarding B), if it ends with "to be obtained", why it is not

While I was in the car I had the horrifying thought that Kofpf would take my quotation marks "literally" and think I was quoting Clive. Alas, I didn't make it home in time. I believe he said the expression was more often applied to

You definitely would not use "that" if you are referring to something that you know is fact. Hi, was there a mistake there? Did you mean "You definitely would not use IF"? Well, what I was saying is that I suspected that

Hello again. Sorry for the delay. I was distracted by a horrendously written online encyclopedia. But, anyway . . . "This guy is a burglar! A wrong 'un in pants in the heart of Brazil." Wrong 'un means a person of bad character

Because of some reasons, I feel that I've been set up by a colleague, so I told him that "You set me up" and he said that was vulgar. However, I looked it up from dictionary, its nature is only informal and isn't offensive. Was