Die hard is what old habits do. We need to renew that.
That is a very good point, Francis. It is hard, they say, for old dogs to learn new tricks.
Tricks are for kids! Silly rabbit! :wink:
Rabbit can mean to talk incessantly and pointlessly. It is cockney slang.
Slang is a minefield for foreign learners, and teachers have a responsibility to address it in their lessons. One Korean student I knew had a pub in stitches after saying he was going to spend a penny.
Penny wise, pound foolish. Don't you think that particular expression till counts today?
Today things look a bit lop-sided and not quite ship-shape. When I was a lad everything was easy to get your head round.
Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran is a sentence impossible to say if you are Chinese, unless you have some good linguistic training. But a Chinese student can easily say Peter picked a peck of pickled pepper.
Pepper is the name of this guy who owns a company. A news company, the News Pepper company.
Company of thieves according to the prosecution. Is Mr Black going to come out of this smelling of roses?
Roses are the subject of many poems, one of which, "Rosefall" is a favorite of mine. My favorite stanza is the last which goes:
"after the rosefall, a colder breeze is blowing,
rose petals lie in drifts upon the ground;
but the breeze remembers, wintering red rose-hips, sowing
the rose's spring and singing; remembering rose's sound. "
(Michael Shepherd 1929- )
Sound lass is Elsie. I like the way she sheepishly grins when she shoves the forty quid into the bottom of her handbag.
Handbag, purse or tote, can be fashion statements for women.
I wouldn't be able to tell a GUCCI from a Louis Vuitton, fashion
guru that I am!
AM is a technique used in electronic communication. Mainly for transmitting information via a radio carrier wave.
Wave of extraordinary power and magnitude, the tsunami wreaked havoc across Asian beaches.
Are the obvious movements of the earths plates a result of man's presence then?
Then she started tickling my ear with the tip of her tongue. Next thing I know her Daddy is marching me up to the altar with a shotgun in my back.
Back Miss Andretti in the Golden Jubilee tomorrow I have been advised twice today.
Will have to check it's running first though, I suppose.
Suppose that we agree that there are both an infinite number of integers, and an infinite number of real numbers between 1 and 2...Can we say that one infinity is larger than the other?
Other than creating various scenarios of integers as levels of infinity and reality is to be based on fact, aren't three seperate notions of algebra based on simply theories absolutely correct in any event?
Event outcome predictions are not Mathos's strongpoint. Tipping us a short priced favourite that comes in fifteenth is a bit iffy to say the least.
