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What does "new lease" mean in "Old hotel gets new lease on life"?
What does this sentence – He was equal parts friends, mentor and confidant – mean?
What does this headline – Has Google lost its mojo? – mean? What is mojo?
That is why arguments against professionals in the Olympics will always be cut down at the knees...
In this sentence seen in a fan forum on the web – Go break a leg, Yao – "break a leg" is explained as "good luck", how come?
Politicians love involvement in sports because there's no good sport in politics.
I've failed over and over and over again... And that is why I succeed.
Do not question English grammar. Accept it. Don't force making sense of it. Uses come first.
Sales on the high street suffered their worst ever fall last month, adding to evidence that the UK is heading...
"What makes Russia (or a person) tick" is an idiom. Here it means "what makes Russians do what they do"...
Today, I'm going to do a little test on you. I'm going to give examples first and let you guess out the meaning of a common English idiom.
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