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Idioms about March

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on March 1, 2022February 25, 2022

March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb – the month…

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  • Culture

The Streisand Effect

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on December 14, 2021November 14, 2021

The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of…

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Idiom: to jump the shark

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 20, 2021October 13, 2021

When a tv series ‘jumps the shark’ it means that the story arc reaches its…

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Fashion and Clothing Related Idioms

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on September 29, 2021September 29, 2021

  A feather in one’s cap À la mode A stitch in time saves nine…

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Idiom – damning with faint praise

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on August 12, 2021August 4, 2021

Damning with faint praise means that you praise someone so so slightly and inconsequential that it…

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Lost in translation

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on October 6, 2020September 10, 2020
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Figuratively speaking…English idioms using numbers

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on August 1, 2020June 30, 2020

A1 back to square one a one-track mind one in a million to be at…

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Idiomatic schematics by John Atkinson

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on December 12, 2019November 17, 2019
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Swenglish – when things go horribly wrong

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on February 17, 2018January 10, 2018

In English if you have to clear your throat it is called having a frog in your…

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Spoonerisms

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on January 26, 2018August 3, 2021

Meaning An accidental transposition of the initial sounds, or other parts, of two or more…

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