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23 Nov 2020
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What are your top 5 most used idioms?
What are your top 5 most used idioms?
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@prenneismarkus
Here’s a site with a lot:
https://www.ef.edu/english-resources/english-id...
My personal top 5 are:
1. Get your act together
2. A dime a dozen
3. On the ball
4. So far so good
5. Under the weather
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that's a feature not a bug
i killed two birds with one stone
ima night owl
that checks out
i can't even
im not sure i recognize whether its an idiom or not...there are probably more that i dont even notice
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