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Alan James Bean

Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?

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bean

[bean] See: [FULL OF BEANS], [SPILL THE BEANS], [USE ONE'S HEAD] or [USE ONE'S BEAN]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

use one's head

[use one's head] or {slang} [use one's bean] or {slang} [use one's noodle] or {slang} use [one's noggin] {v. phr.} To use your brain or mind; think; have common sense. […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Alan Woods

Blame someone else and get on with your life. www.english-slang.com

Alan Alexander Milne

(1882-1956) English writer No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. www.english-slang.com

Slang is

"very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid and ephemeral than ordinary language" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary) - learn ~600 slang expressions

An idiom is

an expression "whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements… or from the general grammatical rules of a language"

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Franklin P. Adams

(1881-1960) U.S. humorist To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

I would like to buy a hamburger

A fragment from "Pink Panther" movie: the French secret agent tries to learn the correct English accent to avaiod suspision.