I was reading a film review and came across a phrase "Michael, played by the very game David Kelly" . I guess "game" must be an adjective, meaning something like "energetic". Am I right? PS the dictionary does

Ah, thanks a lot. I didn't know that meaning ("familiar" or "close") and the dictionary does not have this definition either. Yes, this is British English.

I know the word "down" can have different meanings: go down the street, go down south, etc. In British English it means "move away from the centre". However, the sentence "I bumped into him a couple of weeks ago down the

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In a book which gives some examples of common collocations in English I came across a phrase "I work behind a bar at the weekends to help pay for my studies". What kind of work is that? Serving customers and pouring drinks? Cleaning

Thanks for the prompt answer! I know I cannot trust google all the time One more sentence - just to make it clear: A lot of fish we buy today is produced in fish farms. "Fish" here means "food", that's why they use

What about these two sentences? 1. There is a lot of fish in this river. 2. There are a lot of fish in this river. PS the dictionary says that "fish" is singular if we speak about fish as food, and plural if we speak about animals which

I have looked it up in many dictionaries - it is not there I tried to guess the meaning from the context but it seems difficult. Can anyone help? There are two sentences in the textbook: "We're just hoping that she'll get it out of