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This tag is for questions about phrases in the linguistic sense. In linguistics a “phrase” is a group of words that make a unit of syntax with a single grammatical function. Use [phrase-requests] if you are searching for a phrase.
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Idiom for explaining something too thoroughly
This is sometimes described as getting "bogged down" in the details.
"Bog" is a synonym for "swamp", suggesting that someone is getting stuck, as if they are wading in a swamp, instead of making prog …
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"Whatever a Russian does, they end up making the Kalashnikov gun"? Are there any similar pro...
You could try the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
It's a bit more focussed on a family level, as opposed to national identity.
Roughly described, it says that children will not be very differ …
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Is there a phrase to describe a ready-to-throw-away phone?
There are a few, although 'broken', 'dead', 'unusable' or 'rubbish' would do.
I'd use the word 'borked'.
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Is there an idiom for "I'm not an expert when it comes to kinds of feces"
It's not quite what you asked for, but when describing a situation where you find everything equally bad, that would usually be called a rats nest. Claiming that everyone in that group is "a rat" and …
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word for that time of the month where funds are running low and you gotta wait til payday
The question seems to be what you would name that period of time.
You could try
The end of the month
This makes an assumption that is true in most situations, that people are paid at the start …
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