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Polish your mug idiom
Recently I've heard couple of interesting idioms one of which was "Make yourself scarce or I'll polish your mug".
So, I was wondering is it really used like that?
I've heard of "Make yourself scarce" ...
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Idiom for opportunistically exploiting a situation to one's advantage
I was wondering what various figures of speech could be used to describe a situation where somebody exploits a situation in order to push their own agenda. For example in Persian we have 'Catching a ...
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Can you really “See that thing in person”?
Consider the following scenario:
A woman at a store is shown a dress by a clerk. After a few moments, she tells the clerk that she would like "to see it in red".
The clerk would then go and ...
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Figurative expression for outrageous/unlikely/overly bold claim
What expressions could one use to qualify an expression as unlikely, to soften the impact by changing it from accusation or hyperbole into unlikely (if outrageous) conjecture? Something like "God ...
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“Money for rope” … meaning and derivation?
I was listening to John Lennon's song "Gimme Some Truth" just now, and in it there's a recurring line "money for rope."
I never thought about it much before, but it strikes me this has to be some ...
