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Joe Walsh

(1947--)

U.S. singer

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

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Tom Walsh

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Jimmy Buffett

U.S. singer Indecision may, or may not, be my problem. www.english-slang.com

Tom Waits, 1979

U.S. singer I don't have a drink problem except when I can't get one. www.english-slang.com

Tom Waits

(1949--) U.S. singer Maybe there's no devil; it's just God when He's drunk. 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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Alfred Hitchcock

(1899-1980) U.S. film-maker There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

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blow one's cool

[blow one's cool] {v. phr.}, {slang}, {informal} To lose your composure or self-control. * /Whatever you say to the judge in […]

John Hancock

[John Hancock] or [John Henry] {n.}, {informal} Your signature; your name in writing. * /The man said, "Put your John […]

Steve Martin

(1945--) U.S. comedian I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

earwig

[earwig] {v.} 1. To eavesdrop. 2. To twig (rhyming slang)

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