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

I wrote again. What do you think about that? DATE THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Dear Sir/Madam, At first, I was interested in chemistry in high school. After, I began to learn this lesson,

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

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 dont know its name but our professor said its name was letter of expression. I searched on net but I didnt find anything. I wrote something but Im not sure about that. I guess, I have grammar mistakes. Dear Sir/Madam,

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

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