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Nose out of joint?: Idiom explained

  • Post author:Iza Grek
  • Post published:July 29, 2024

Today it's all about the nose. Nose-based idiom on the English Club ‘idiom of the day’ post and a ‘The nose knows’ video that popped into my email. The latter…

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Quiver full of arrows: idiom

A quiver full of arrows

  • Post author:Iza Grek
  • Post published:November 30, 2021

Thanks to prolific author Jeffrey Archer the idiom ‘a quiver full of arrows’ penetrated our language to a great extent after 1980 when he published a book with this title.…

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Baa, hanged for a sheep as a lamb
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Can you count to 10? – idiom

  • Post author:Iza Grek
  • Post published:November 4, 2021

Can you count to 10? Good then you can help with the untelling of the decuplets saga. In the Financial Mail today, a staff writer says Iqual Survé, the owner of the newspaper, that shared the story, would reveal all.

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