What do you mean by 'idiomatic'? Are you saying that "Wow! She's too beautiful!" means 'not really beautiful'? I know for a fact that too means also 'very' in a formal register, for example: "Thank you,

"He walked as fast as the undergrowth and snowdrifts would allow " What is the justification for the conditional in the second half of the sentence? Tough question. In some ways, it is not really a conditional, but an expression of

the past participle of the verb "go", is it "been"? No. It's gone . "go" in this case has irregular form in the past participle which is "been" That seems logical, but normally we analyze the situation

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

You are quite right of course. There is a world of difference between knowing the words and comprehending the common use of phrases, idioms, collocation and local expressions.

Well, post some idioms here and we will help you.

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 Tom Can I use it in everyday conversation? I'd say it's sometimes used in everyday conversation. Is the use of come natural in the given sentence?... I will invite you to dinner come December. I'd say that would be possible, but

In the States, we come up with new lingos and idioms all the time, no? I don't know. I've never seen "no" used as a sentence tag that way, for example. I was told that "yes?" would sound like "mexican" or

In the States, we come up with new lingos and idioms all the time, no? No. We leave that stuff to the poets, and call it Art. IMHO the purpose of conversation is communication. Therefore, language grows and changes slowly. Yes, there are small