Posts Tagged ‘idioms’
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“They only say that in Rome” and similar nonsense
The United States is a large country, and I’ve lived all over the US. I know how people talk in the northeast, and how they talk in the south. I can recognize a Carolinian accent and distinguish it from a Tennesseean accent, and I can hear a single word in your speech that tells me…
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A few more Italian idioms
Today, we have a few more Italian colloquialisms, or idioms, or slang… or whatever you like to call them — I still don’t know (or care) what the difference is.
These are fun little phrases because they don’t mean what they say, and it’s important to understand them correctly when you hear or see them…