If you've seen the show, would you kindly explain my question? Here is a joke in the episode "The Christmas Picture". It's in a scene when Ray and Robert were thinking about gifts to their mother. And in here, Ray

I use it and my parents and relatives used it. I agree that it sounds a bit formal, and we all probably sounded silly to southerners and westerners. Local L.A. talk show hosts love to make fun of the speech of our recently retired (and somewhat

meaning: We'll show them who is in charge.

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

To buy something means to go to the store and purchase it. But there's also an idiom, "to buy something," which means to accept, or believe something which a person tells you. (This is the meaning of your example: "Hey! Did you

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

The idiom is you had better not try but in other contexts you'd may mean you would. CB

What is the meaning of " come through the rye" ?

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