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This tag is for questions about expressions. Expressions are words or phrases used to convey an idea, or else a particular term used conventionally to express something. Consider phrase-requests and expression-requests if you are looking for an expression, phrase-meaning if you are unsure about the usage of a given phrase.
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Self-irony, self irony [duplicate]
Self-irony is very popular in my home country, Denmark, and I find it defined on the Internet as "the ability to laugh at oneself, to take oneself lightly".
I also find it in some dictionaries but ap …
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"To be on first-name terms" in American English
Several dictionaries - Merriam-Webster, Collins, Cambridge et al. - say that "to be on first-name terms" is British English. What is it called in American English when two people decide to call each o …