图片1 When someone is telling you a story with a lot of little details and you want them to get to the main point, you can say cut to the chase. This expression is used with friends when you want them to cut to the most interesting part of the stor

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

图片1 The expression when pigs fly is used when people talk about something they would never do, or some event that would never happen. It is a very old expression, and no one knows why we talk about pigs! We can also use the similar expression, wh

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Broadcast on Coast to Coast: February 6, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- meet Kembrew McLeod. He's an assistant professor of communications [studies] at the University of Iowa. A few years ago, Mr. McLeod

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图片1 If you try to use an expression before you know the definition then you are getting ahead of yourself! That is why it is always good to listen to our podcasts We look at this expression and other similar ones about looking too far into the fu

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图片1 If you want to tell someone to keep something a secret or promise to keep a secret for someone else you can use this expression: mums the word. At first it seems like a strange expressionmum is the word? Weird. But you will see it is not so c

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Expression In Class 课堂用语 16. May I come in? 我能进来吗? 17. Come in, please. 请进。 18. Sit down, please. 请坐。 19. It's time for class. 上课时间到了。 20. Open your books and turn to page 20. 打开书,翻到第20页。

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