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Use the idiom tag for questions which a dictionary cannot answer about set phrases with unusual meanings that can't be properly understood just from the separate words in them.
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Sentences starting with “in what must be a first”?
In English, we often say something is "a first" to to note an unusual or unprecedented event.
My dog didn't finish her dinner tonight. That's a first.
I wrote typed an entire page without noticing t …
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Excuse me, excuse myself, excuse yourself?
"Excuse me, excuse myself, excuse yourself" are not really idioms, or special case exceptions to conventional constructions. They follow standard patterns of grammar that are worth knowing. …
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meaning of "a billion to one" and "50 million to 1"
Does a "a billion to one" mean "one in a billion" and "50 million to 1" mean "1 in 50 million"
A billion to one is not the same as one in a billion. It isn't even the opposite. These are big number …
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