Yes, it's an idiom, and where I live it's pretty common. It's a noun and it means "major thing I learned." It's more common in the business world. I went to his lecture. My two major take-aways were... After three solid

As everyone knows by now, many companies have gone tactical in BI (business intelligence) and related investments. In a time of CapEx freezes, people are innovating in interesting ways, which is a good bit of the theme at the latest TDWI

when they were discribing cars, they said: Cornering : does it hug the road or does it wallow about ? 1. Is wallow about an idiom? I can only find some reference in british style. 2. In this context, when discribing cars, what does

Hi dear sir/madam I am an Iranian. I work as a translator and at the moment I am working on children story book. There are some idioms in the book which are really difficult to translate because I dont have any reference to find them.

Hi, 'Live easy' is not an expression I remember hearing or reading. The closest I can come with the word 'easy' is the idiom 'He is (living) on Easy Street' . eg He's on Easy Street, because he won $10

i's and t's are not acronums.  They are the plural form of the letters i and t.  The reference about school children refers to writing in a hurry and forgetting to put a dot over the letter i and to remember to cross the t.  It admonishes

Hi, I'm Rudy. I'm going to be an English teacher next year. I've come across a question about Infinitives, and this time, I would like to hear as many opinions as possible on this. In most of English reference books in Japan, the

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents_(idiom) " My two cents " and its longer version " put my two cents in " is an American idiomatic expression, taken from the original British idiom expression: to put in " my two

Idioms are phrases that have become embedded in a language over time, replacing what had been the standard way of saying something. They are accepted for formal use, and usually are chosen for use because they are the most efficient way to

I think we should keep the discussion in the context of "english as a second language". I think idioms can be very difficult for the individual whose native tongue is not English. It can be very difficult to teach the meaning of these