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"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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make out

[make out] {v.} 1. To write the facts asked for (as in an application blank or a report form); fill out. * /The teacher made […]

to the wall

[to the wall] {adv. phr.} Into a place from which there is no escape; into a trap or corner. - Usually used after "drive" or a […]

Wallace Irwin

(1876-1959) U.S. editorauthor Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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Plug-and-Play

[Plug-and-Play] A new hire who doesn't require training. * /"That new guy is totally plug-and-play."/

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Mark Twain

(1835-1910) U.S. writer Buy land, they're not making it any more.

I would like to buy a hamburger

A fragment from "Pink Panther" movie: the French secret agent tries to learn the correct English accent to avaiod suspision.