Although children play a game called leapfrog, I don't think this phrase is related to it, but merely a colorful riff on the rather boring expression, "When he says jump, you'd better jump" - "When he says frog, you'd

I think I might use this expression to mean that somebody doesn't focus on details. Whether that would be a compliment or not depends on the issue at hand. You know how Michael is. He likes to do everything in broad strokes. It's up to

Hi, I thought that my toaster oven was going to keep on making that annoying sound until the day that it gets toast. Possibly you are thinking of the expression 'to be toast'. eg My wife will be angry when I tell her about

Hi, He loved to play Chinese lottery. Also, in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness—faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener's helper do not lap over

Hi, Does anyone know the phrase"in the first place" in this sentence mean? "Many believe that it would be better to spend more pveventing people from becoming unwell in the first place, and reduce the amount spent on curing

Hello, I would like to know the possible meanings of the phrase "edge against a wall" in the following stanza from a poem by Harryette Mullen. Is it a idiomatic expression applied to some circumstances? I can imagine a sentence

Hi Would you say that all idioms are expressions ? For example: My sister and her husband get on like a house on fire ? Many may say that they liked the idiom used in the sentence and many may say they that they didn't like

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Interpreting the author's intentions is sometimes unrelevant. Art is what it is, not what it was meant to be when it was first created. I think the sentence "every you and every me" to have a double meaning: one recalls the thousand

Hi there, I was trying to find something : sometimes two old friends, that are both single, decide to get married. I think there is a particular expression for that kind of situation and i'd like to know what it is. Thank you for your help