Not, to my knowledge, per se. Roget's Thesaurus , at least, includes many slang and idiomatic synonyms for more standard words.

Hello, everybody! I'm a student of English who needs your help with some idioms in order to analyse them for my graduation paper. The topic of my research is synonymy among idiomatic expressions. For the purpose of this research I have

Liat. If you insist the sentence is correct, can you please educate me which one of the following definitions meets the grammatical requirement of the sentence in question? For the benefit of a slight doubt, I will invite other's opinions.

Thank you very much, Philip. You're right. And, what would be the British equivalent for "gig" as a temporary job?

Could anybody correct the article below for me and suggest me some better expression s or words or idioms base d on the writing below? Please correct my pronouns. 2nd May 2009 7:00p.m. This is my first time start writing diaries seriously. (you

Hi, I read the following somewhere: " Everything else is a Go", is this correct? I think it means every thing is going well

Hi there, I decided to put this here in the linguistic section because it seems like a strange and very complicated subject to discuss. I am going to improve my vocabulary in a systematic way (finally!), using a technique I don't feel like

In my opinion, it is not. You could say that "requirement" and "need " are synonyms, but they don't always work the same. "We have an urgent requirement for a suitable candidate etc." "We have an urgent need

"on the fly" (no hyphens) is an idiom used as an adverb, meaning "in midair" or "as something is happening". It does suggest speed abd agility. It comes from baseball, meaning to catch the ball before it hits the

Opportunity knocks is the first words of a popular proverb / idiom about opportunity Opportunity knocks but once. Other proverbs are Strike while the iron is hot. Make hay while the sun shines. All mean that it is best to act on an opportunity