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No, it isn't an idiom, it is usually a noun phrase, as in "He made me an offer of $50 for the car"; "I made an offer of help, but she refused". Please don't be offended, but if you are learning English, writing "wanna" as a colloquial shorthand for "want...

It's called heavy movement if I'm not mistaken. A heavy (wordy) phrase or clause is moved from its usual position in a sentence to make other grammatical relationships more clear. In the two cases under consideration, the movement occurs to place the head of the subject noun phrase closer to...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: something is in the making is a quite frequently used idiom : if someone is an athlete, star, writer, etc. in the making, they are likely to develop into that thing This young swimmer is an athlete in the making. (Cambridge dic) "an economic catastrophe in...

something is in the making is a quite frequently used idiom : if someone is an athlete, star, writer, etc. in the making, they are likely to develop into that thing This young swimmer is an athlete in the making. (Cambridge dic) "an economic catastrophe in the making characterized by...

I think your question will be better answered if you can give us some examples in context so that we have a sense of what you don't understand. From reading your question, I have no idea. Phrasel verbs, prepositions and idioms are completely different animal from each other. Based on my...

HSS wrote: If I knew what "passed for fair" and "which age turned more knowing and severe" mean, the fog would be gone. Is the "fair" part of the idiom "for fair" or is it that the "for" is part of the expression "passed for" and that the "fair" is a noun? Hello HSS I think "passed for fair" is...