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Idioms are a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words. Use [idiom-requests] if you are searching for an idiom with a particular meaning.
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Anything and everything
Is it correct to say, "Please feel free to change anything and everything in the draft"? I want to mean the reviewer can change as much as he wants (but want to say that more emphatically).
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Is it ever correct to say "turn down the building"?
I'm a non-native speaker of English, and so is my wife. We were talking to a native speaker when at one point, my wife commented, "They should turn down the building." I've never heard of the phrase " …
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"Go a long way to" + gerund vs infinitive
Which one is correct? If they all are correct, which construction is the most preferable? Why?
The fund will go a long way to solving their problem.
The fund will go a long way to solve their proble …
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