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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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Zimbabwe saying

You don't have to be faster than the lion, you only have to be faster than the slowest guy.

pack a punch

[pack a punch] or [pack a wallop] {v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To be able to give a powerful blow; have a dangerous fist. * /He […]

potshot

[potshot] {n.} A direct shot at an easy, stationary target from behind a protected position or camouflage; criticism. * […]

catch with one's pants down

[catch with one's pants down] {v. phr.}, {slang} To surprise someone in an embarrassing position or guilty act. * /They […]

in one's minds eye

[in one's mind's eye] {adv. phr.} In the memory; in the imagination. * /In his mind's eye he saw again the house he had […]

Joyce Armor, TV screenwriter

Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.

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