2015年5月9日 · It's not like a supermarket where you can find pretty the same stuff whichever one you go to. You need to go to the airport which has the flight for which you have tickets. Maybe someone might say this if going to any airport fulfilled some interesting criteria, like maybe the first time they had been to any airport, or some fortune teller told ...

Go figure people—Scott Turow {fr Yiddish gey vays, "go know"} Notwithstanding the "contradictory or astonishing" language in Chapman & Kipfer's definition of "Go figure," the example from The Nation seems very much in line with Ayto's observation that the expression is often "used to suggest that the conclusion to be drawn about something is ...

Let's go to Joe's bar. vs. Let's go to the bar. vs . Let's go to a bar. If the name (proper noun) of the bar is "The 1020", use it in full. Let's go to The 1020. If the name is "1020" without "the", but you have a choice of several nearby bars you could say. Let's go to the 1020 bar.

2022年1月2日 · "go from there" can refer to any discussion where the details are unknown and still to be clarified. Tell me what colors you like, and we can go from there. [decide on a product or thing.] "go off something", besides the meaning of to stop taking some drug or other, means to start with a specific measurement as the first step.

2019年8月30日 · Benjamin Harman commented: In the first sentence, "go for" is a phrasal verb that means to make an attempt at. In the second sentence, the verb is simply "go" and "to" appears as a preposition that introduces the destination where the subject will arrive as a result of performing the intransitive action of the ver

2016年3月12日 · go {there} But when you are speaking with someone, if you use the word go, you are referring to a place that is not where you are and also not where the person is. With go, you are referring to a third place where neither of you are. Imagine a phone call: Hi, Jane. I am going to the library. (The speaker believes Jane is not at the library now ...

2015年5月8日 · "I go to school five days a week." "When I go home, I pass by the airport." When referring to a specific building, the article is used. "Can you tell me where the school is?" Also, titles of institutions often contain articles and these should be used when referring to them. "I studied at The London School of Economics."

2011年7月11日 · The Oxford learner's dictionary does indicate that there is a dialect difference for ready, steady, go (see idioms): ready, steady, go! (BRITISH ENGLISH) (also (get) ready, (get) set, go NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH, BRITISH ENGLISH) what you …

@SvenYargs To me the expressions "Here we go again" and "There you go again" are almost the first and second person equivalents of each other. In the the first case the speaker is expressing frustration with the fact that the group is being placed in a difficult situation or being subjected to an oft-repeated rant by a boss or politician.

2013年8月7日 · Often times when I go to fill forms and apply for programs at government agencies or other places, they often ask me whether I have another name that people call me. I'm Chinese and I use my native name in my legal documents, IDs, etc. and Theo is what my friends and other poeple call me.