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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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Mark Twain

(1835-1910) Never put off til tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.

hinge on

[hinge on] or [hinge upon] {v.} To depend on as decisive: be decided by. * /In a dictatorship, everything hinges on one […]

on the wagon

[on the wagon] {adv. phr.} Participating in an alcohol addiction program; not touching any alcoholic beverage. * /Jim's […]

Fran Lebowitz

(1950--) U.S. writer In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

pie-eyed

[pie-eyed] {adj.phr.} {informal} Said about someone very drunk. * /I am completely pie-eyed./ Compare: [cockeyed]

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no doubt

[no doubt] {adv.} 1. Without doubt; doubtless; surely; certainly. * /No doubt Susan was the smartest girl in her class./ 2. […]

on the up and up

[on the up and up] {adj. phr.}, {informal} Honest; trustworthy; sincere. * /We felt that he was honest and could be trusted. […]