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dogsbody70 (Offline)
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07-27-2011, 12:09 PM

That definitely sounds American. I doubt if we in the UK would use that idiom-- Not to my knowledge anyway although often we do pick up American style expressions.


Here is a website with many Idioms.

Idioms/A

This looks useful also: Phrases that start with the letter 'B'

Here also is alist of cliches which we often over use without thinking

Cliches: Avoid Them Like the Plague

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