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The History of English

The history of English in 10 minutes by The Open University.

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go down in history

[go down in history] or [go down in the records] {v. phr.} To be remembered or recorded for always. * /The lives of great men go down in history./ * […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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American Slang - Lessons by Jennifer

The series of free video lessons on American slang by Jennifer - native English language teacher This is lesson #1 (introductory). There are at least 8 lessons on slang in […] Quality English Lessons

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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tongue

[tongue] See: [AT THE TIP OF ONE'S TONGUE], [CAT GET ONE'S TONGUE], [HOLD ONE'S TONGUE], [KEEP A CIVIL TONGUE IN ONE'S […]

Blaise Pascal

(1623-1662), Lettres Provinciales, XVI, 1656 I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it […]

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boozer

[boozer] {n.} 1. a pub or bar. 2. Someone who drinks alcohol to excess.

foul-up

[foul-up] {n.} (stress on "foul") 1. {informal} A confused situation; confusion; mistake. * /The luncheon was handled with […]

matter of opinion

[matter of opinion] {n. phr.} Something that may or may not be true; something that people do not all agree on. * /Whether […]

have a snowballs chance in hell

[have a snowball's chance in hell] {v. phr.} To be condemned to failure; enjoy a zero chance of success. * /Pessimists used […]

stare in the face

[stare in the face] {n. phr.} 1. To be about to meet or to happen to (you.) * /Grandmother became very sick and death was […]