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A “big-mouth” is someone who talks about subjects he should leave alone. Someone who talks literally too loudly (nói to) is a “loud-mouth”.

Two issues: “A cup of coffee” is the contents of the cup. If you want to refer to the vessel, it’s “a coffee cup”. “clink”, if it’s a verb at all, is intransitive. The action of tapping the spoon o …

It would be appreciated if you can let us know when can we expect to receive the final payment. This is “good” English in that it is grammatical (it follows the rules of standard English) and it is …

It’s not size or viscosity. If you step “in” something, the something surrounds your foot. It has to be granular, liquid, or gel-like, for that to happen, and of sufficient quantity. You step “in” we …

Lately there has been an upswing in the whimsical nonce use of nouns as verbs meaning “being that thing” or “resembling that thing”. I have heard “the math isn’t mathing” (meaning, the numbers are not …

“Business” can mean “any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter” like “that whole business with Amber Heard”. “Hairy” can mean “frightening” or …

A garden in American English means a patch of ground set aside for the growing of specific plants; the immediate curtilage of a home, typically planted with grass and used for recreation, is a yard. B …

“Come with” means “arrive together with”. You can say it about people (“Bob came with Carol to the party”) or objects (“The hamburger came with a side of fries”). Said about inanimate objects, the p …

“Santa Maria will be [the] lighter for his carcass” means “if he were dead [his body is a carcass], the burdens on the the ship would be lighter”. Consider this headline expressing the opposite sentim …

Perhaps “vibrant” or “electric”?

First, only one s in “biased”. You could use the adjective “conflicted”, but that may be taken to mean emotionally conflicted rather than subject to a financial or political conflict. “Bias” might be …

“Pasture” is ground cultivated to feed livestock, especially cows and horses. It typically smells, at least slightly, of their wastes and so is not particularly pleasant. “Meadow” is a grassy area wi …

A double-knit fabric is just one where both sides of the fabric are identical. In the 1970’s, clothing made from inexpensive double-knit fabrics were fashionable among the American middle- and working …

“Flick” is a transitive verb. Something flicks something else: the cat flicks her tail; the bully flicked my ear. A bit of milk “splashed” out of the bowl.

As a general rule, salaries are expressed by the year but then paid by the week, half-month, or month. Wages are expressed and paid by the hour. This may differ by country. In the US, “exempt” (salar …