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Things that can be satisfied are wants, urges, needs, and rules. Requirements, decrees, edicts, laws, commandments, convenants, regulations typically fall in the "rules" category. Connection won't t …

Nearby is a modifier. Modifiers don't change the reason why or why you don't use an article/determiner. Neither of your sentences is more idiomatic than the other. They communicate different meanin …

Statements like this typically use your own X: You are your own first supporter. This: You are your self first supporter sounds awkward. Self is not used as a modifier very of …

Is this car a custom build or a stock build? This is correct, 100% of the time. Is this car a custom build or a stock? Speakers in live conversations may omit words if already said in the s …

Come out as a winner is fine grammatically, but rarely said by itself - it's rare that you will be commanding someone to "come out as a winner." Something like this is far more typical: You'll co …

Level up is a phrase derived from video games and is appropriate to use when talking about things you do in a video game or possibly if you're trying to use video-game terms to relate to others. Outs …

Down can be used phrasally/adverbially to indicate the intent/effect is to prevent the object from moving--especially if the context involves the verbs or meanings of tie, strap, tape, bind, bundle, e …

Cooking, hiking and painting - this is what I do Saying "this is what I do" is idiomatic for describing how you spend your free time or describing your hobbies. Can be used to describe your job …

While X on Y is used to express X being on top of Y if Y is a physically flat surface, or X is "stuck" to Y somehow, it can also be used a bit more abstractly to express that X is currently or was tal …

Talking big refers to something someone is going to do which they may not be able to do, or referring to an exaggeration of what someone has done. This, however: he went bungee jumping yesterday, …

If you can count X, and there is a lot of X, you have to say many X, not much X. If you are using the plural of a noun, it's countable. Most X works whether you can count X or not. There are man …

When X has Y, Z is the same as saying Each time X has Y, Z happened. It does not necessarily imply that "X is Y'ing" right now. But it does imply that if X is Y'ing right now, then Z is probably h …

Answering your question: You've got the right idea with your phrases. There isn't a separate common idiom for not keeping someone updated. "leave someone out of the loop" - this is OK, but could imp …

Examine these two sentences. I took a cup. I took any cup. "A cup" means an actual cup was there. The second sentence doesn't make sense unless there's some context from conversation we ca …

Fall apart means to break or decompose, and is used for things that are constructed or built. Ground and floor-like things can't "fall apart" - they can "break up", "break down", "break apart" but n …