It's hard to know for sure without seeing this phrase in the exact context of the letter, but usually the phrase "into the evening" means very late. I think what your professor is saying is that you should plan for a late night. I do

And here's what Updike had to say about Rabbit, Run back in 1990: It was subtitled, in my .. I thought " have to " means " must ." But in this case, I don't think it does. And I've seen sentences like this

I have often found phrases like these online: How to cry on cue? How to laugh naturally on cue? But when I went look for this idiom, what I had found didn't make sense to me. http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/on+cue

Hello, What does this phrase mean: go as far to say in the following sentence: "I think you could even go as far to say that less than 1% of developed sites are profitable." Thanks,

"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

Hi all, In a letter by Katherine Mansfield I come across the following passage: 'When you came to tea this afternoon you took a brioche broke it in half & padded the inside doughy bit with two fingers'. Could you tell me

From Paper 1 (Reading) of the CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English) of the University of Cambridge , Part 1 . In this part candidates are asked to read three extracts and to answer a total of 18 questions, six per extract. Here are some

From Paper 1 (Reading) of the CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English) of the University of Cambridge , Part 1 . In this part candidates are asked to read three extracts and to answer a total of 18 questions, six per extract. Here are some

No sorry. I wasn't going for a metaphor or idiom of any sort just a sentence I wanted corrected.

what What does the idiom hit it off mean ? You must learn to capitalize the first word of the sentence and end your sentence with some punctuation. Otherwise people won't believe that you know anything about English! hit it off means