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This tag is for questions about how to use a particular phrase. If your question is a request for a phrase to use, you should use the "phrase-request" tag.
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Is it correct to say "you are about my chest tall" to mean the height of that person is abou...
No; your chest is not standard or general
As you have read, knee-high is a common expression used both metaphorically for people (I've known him since he was knee-high to a grasshopper) and literally …
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What phrase would American English speakers use in place of "Tom, Dick and Harry"?
As Michael Siefert says, this is both used and immediately recognizable in American English, but it would be generational, with the oldest speakers finding it natural, many or most middle-aged speaker …
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What is the logic behind "I am X years old"?
This fits a general pattern
Rather than being specific to the concept of age, this usage follows a general pattern in English in which adjectives / qualities of a noun are often expressed as 'states o …
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