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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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hogching

Reading / Flashcard learning set.Learn / refresh your knowledge against the set, then examine yourself by running flashcard […]

before one can say Jack Robinson

[before one can say Jack Robinson] {adv. cl.}, {informal} Very quickly; suddenly. - An overused phrase. * /Before I could […]

put one's hand to the plow

[put one's hand to the plow] or [set one's hand to the plow] {v. phr.} To start doing something of importance; give yourself […]

Herbert Stein

(1916-1999) U.S. economist If it might break, don't go near it.

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porkies

[porkies] {n.} Lies (from the Cockney rhyming slang pork pies)

Open-Collar Workers

[Open-Collar Workers] People who work at home or telecommute.

Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

(1694-1773), 1769 All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.