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cancel out

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Internet Lingo

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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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buckle down

[buckle down] or [knuckle down] {v.} To give complete attention (to an effort or job); attend. * /They chatted idly for a […]

hitch one's wagon to a star

[hitch one's wagon to a star] {v. phr.} To aim high; follow a great ambition or purpose. * /In trying to be a famous […]

Thomas Fuller, 1732

Good swimmers are oftenest drowned.

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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