Phrase of the day: saying it is one thing; meaning it is another.
Jon Wright is the author of the wonderful Idioms Organiser, for our money perhaps the best self-study book on idioms
Read more.20th January 2015
Phrase of the day: What’re you doing later?
Lots of very common chunks don’t get taught early enough in many course because they are seen as somehow being
Read more.14th January 2015
Chunk of the day: Just because . . . it doesn’t mean
We’ve both often had students act more than a little surprised at our apparently un-English ways. Smiling and being friendly
Read more.6th November 2014