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What does SNAFU mean

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on October 2, 2013September 14, 2014

It is an abbreviation of Situation Normal: All Fucked Up. Used as there has been…

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Whistle-blower

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on September 22, 2013September 24, 2013

Meaning A person who tries to raise the alarm about a problem and publicises it…

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Idioms and Euphemisms for Death

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on August 29, 2013August 15, 2013

The most common and gentlest easily-understandable euphemism used to announce that someone has died is…

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Indian Giver

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on June 29, 2013June 11, 2013

Besides being a song by the 1910 Fruitgum Company it means the following (from Wikipedia)…

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Wisdom of the Day

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on June 18, 2013June 17, 2013
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Punctuation Changes Everything

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on June 10, 2013June 10, 2013

versus For the origin and meaning of this idiom, click here

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The Cat’s Whiskers

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on June 7, 2013May 10, 2013

To be the cat’s whiskers is an English idiom meaning excellence – find useful idioms…

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Blåsväder

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on June 6, 2013May 10, 2013

This seems to be a very popular word in the Swedish press. In English we would…

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Idioms for bodily functions

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on May 13, 2013May 14, 2013

I was having a discussion with my fifteen year old nephew this summer about idioms (more…

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Swedish and English Idioms

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on May 6, 2013May 6, 2014

English is a very idiomatic language. This makes it very difficult for foreign speakers of…

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