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Category: phrases

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Origins of phrases 2: Sport & games

26 Mar 2023language, phrases

It is interesting that some widely used phrases have their origins in sport. Here are just a few of these. ‘Grand slam’ It refers to winning each group in a sporting major championship or matches in a sport in a […]

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Origins of phrases 1: Music

18 Sep 2020phrases

“As fit as a fiddle” ‘Fiddle’ here is the colloquial name for a violin. ‘Fit’ didn’t originally mean healthy, in the sense it is nowadays often used to describe the gym-goers but was used to mean ‘suitable’ or ‘seemly’, similar […]

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It’s just a phrase I’m going through: Money slang

15 Jan 2015phrases

  There are many words relating to money – you would expect that as money is such a vital commodity. Words such as cash, coins, and currency are familiar, but there are also many slang words, such as: bread, dosh […]

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It’s just a phrase I’m going through: Money

19 Dec 2014phrases

  My first blog concerning phrases touched on the types of phrase found in the English language. Here are a few of the many phrases relating to money (with thanks to the Oxford English Dictionary and A Word in Your Shell-like […]

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It’s just a phrase I’m going through: Types of phrase

30 Nov 2014phrases

A phrase is usually a small group of words that stand together as a unit, but technically it could consist of just one word. The Oxford Thesaurus gives several synonyms to describe a phrase: clause, idiom, expression, proverb, motto, adage, cliché, […]

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