Reader Opinions
Anonymous – (as a result) October 3, 2019
It is precise track to let us familiar with the linking word or idiom as a result , and with you I would like to urge you to provide some extracts with five to six line lines each to execute on more pragmatic. Thank you.
Anonymous – (there’s no place like home) September 24, 2019
The phrase there’s no place like home appears in Anna Karenina.
Alisson – (at the drop of a hat) September 21, 2019
Can I use that expression in the following sentence?
We don’t learn how to speak a language at the drop of a hat.
Thanks in advance.
Jacques Boutard, retired English teacher – (everything but the kitchen sink) September 19, 2019
Nelwyn Talley, obviously your mom didn’t know what she was talking about. Never trust moms, or newspapers, blindly. Try this : “If your kitchen sink is worn out, [that is, your old wooden sink] replace it with a steel or graniteware sink. They are clean and sanitary. Our price is right.” So promised Russill Hill Hardware in its Toronto Star advertisement of May 9, 1902. It was possible, by the 1880s, to replace the dry or wet trough of stone, wood, or zinc-lined wood (nicknamed the “zinc”) with an enamelled cast iron, granite, steel, or slate trough with cock-taps for running water.”
My name is Doms – (go out on a limb) September 19, 2019
I think it’s a wonderful and very helpful page, but I just wish there were more synonyms for ‘going on out on a limb.” But, other than that this website has helped me a hell of a lot.
Priya Naidu – (feather in your cap) September 15, 2019
This new success is an additional feather in her cap.
A reader – (hold your horses) September 14, 2019
My reading it is comes from when people used horses like we now use cars; so it meant please put on the brakes and hold your horses!
Anonymous – (in a pickle) September 13, 2019
Actually it is said that the Dutch used this phrase, even before the publication of William Shakespeare’s “the Tempest” in 1611.
Anonymous – (crack of dawn) September 13, 2019
I agree with some of the statements made… technically though, Dawn is the morning twilight which starts when the sun is 6° BELOW the horizon and ENDS when the sun first goes above the horizon. People make words mean whatever they want them to mean and meanings many times will change over time due to the incorrect usage that is somehow accepted (this aspect obviously bothers me!! Lol).
Chanel (model at vogue, college student) – (castles in the air) September 7, 2019
This was good. I am dumb that i am in college and forgot about this idiom. This was all good
but you should add some more examples.
