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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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Is there a secular, non vulgar alternative to "for heaven's sake"?
My mother, when her temper was too much tried, would sometimes shout in a voice of rising hysteria 'Good-Gorton-TANK!!' Nobody knew what it meant, but it cowed us.
Thanks to google however I now k …
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What is the meaning of the expression "Get all you can, can all you get, sit on the can"?
The meaning may depend on whether the person hearing it speaks British or American English. Being British I thought the third use of 'can' referred back to the second, but switching from verb to noun …
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