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Zsa Zsa Gabor

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5,000 Gideon Bibles.

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Mark Twain

(1835-1910) All religions issue Bibles against Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side. www.english-slang.com

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"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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[get behind] {v.} 1. To go too slowly: be late; do something too slowly. * /The post office got behind in delivering […]

last straw

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