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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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Chinese proverb

One dog barks at something; the rest bark at him.

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ROFLMAOPIMP

[ROFLMAOPIMP] "Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off peeing in my pants"

hang-up

[hang-up] {n.}, {informal} (stress on "hang") 1. A delay in some process. * /The mail has been late for several days; there […]

heavenly days!

[heavenly days!] {interj.}, {informal} Exclamation of amazement and disbelief with negative coloring. * /Heavenly days! Look […]

for the life of one

[for the life of one] {adv.}, {informal} No matter how hard you try. - Used for emphasis with negative statements. * /I […]

sign of the times

[sign of the times] {n. phr.} A characteristic of the times in which one lives. * /It is a sad sign of the times that all […]

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