1.What does 'He's wound up tighter than a drum' mean? It's a mixed metaphor/simile for tension, but it used to be quite popular. The coil springs which powered old fashioned toys were wound up with a key. We used to wind our

Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Hello, Raja, It goes without saying that there is no blame in being a non-native speaker and a layperson in linguistic science, so

Hi, I'd change these: 5. The sun was eclipsed by the moon. ACTIVE PASSIVE 9. This bone has been buried by the dog . PASSIVE 10. It takes a long time to think of these examples . PASSIVE ACTIVE 13. There was a cup of coffee on the table but now

Hi Friends, Glad being here. Here is my first post. Passage A Passage B Passage C If in each of the passages, we have a conclusion. Now in passage D, we want to mention one of them like this: ... the proceding/above/previous conclusion tells us

Hi, Situation: We (A and B) are waiting for a friend (C). Is the underlined I see no underlining expression okay in the above situation? A: We've been waiting for C for a long time. OK B: I don't know what has happened to C. keeps

Situation: We (A and B) are waiting for a friend (C). Is the underlined expression okay in the above situation? A: We've been waiting for C for a long time. B: I don't know what happened to C. A: I can't wait any longer. I have to go

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

Here, 'suck' = 'take', but with a slightly negative feeling. The teacher's angry looks sucked the fun out of our teasing the little boy on the playground. Your expression of feeling guilty sucks the fun out of our

Hello there! I need your help to correct this translation... It is pretty urgent cause I need to send it in two days. I put some alternatives and comments in brackets and parentheses . Thank you so much in advance ! -- For Kids of Today Chicken

Would you please be so kind as to correct this little text for me? I put some alternatives and comments in brackets and parentheses. I need this text to be corrected in two days! Thank you so much in advance! -- For Kids of Today Chicken Has Six