American Slang

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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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chain-smoke

[chain-smoke] {v.} To smoke cigarettes or cigars one after another without stopping. * /Mr. Jones is very nervous. He […]

clamp down

[clamp down] {v.}, {informal} To put on strict controls; enforce rules or laws. * /After the explosion, police clamped down […]

Charles IX

(1550-1574) Horses and poets should be fed, not overfed.

Mary Pettibone Poole

"He who laughs, lasts."

dekko

[dekko] Look. From the Hindi, dekho.

Idioms to Learn Today

Flashcard learning set.Check yourself now!Try flashcard test by definitions or by descriptions.Set includes the following […]

eat crow

[eat crow] {v. phr.} To admit you are mistaken or defeated; take back a mistaken statement. * /John had boasted that he […]

way

[way] See: [ALL THE WAY] or [THE WHOLE WAY], [BY THE WAY], [BY WAY OF], [COME A LONG WAY], [CUT BOTH WAYS] or [CUT TWO […]