2016年6月7日 · It means the person is able to only use "talking" to get out of trouble, that they have . the gift of (the) gab . The idiom is. verb + possessive way out of something talk one's …

2015年5月13日 · It also is used in the phrase to pull yourself up by your bootstraps - meaning to work your way out of a mess without anyone else's help - the "American Way". In computer …

2018年6月6日 · Once "the only way to get out is to go backward" is mentioned, I feel like suggesting the "dead end" and "blind alley" expressions that both may mean a metaphorical …

Whenever somebody resigns, or does something out of the ordinary, the president at our institution always sends out an email that begins. It is with extremely mixed emotions that I …

2014年9月15日 · I'll be out of the office until 9/22. The situation we're describing is being out of the office. The relevant fact is absence, that I am normally in the office, but during this period I …

The Longman Dictionary seems to suggest that on the fringes can be used either literally or figuratively, while on the fringe refers to something actually physically away from the center.

Learn to use phrases rather than words. You can always change the formatting of a sentence to accommodate for the three-word adjective 'out-of-context'. In fact, that is arguably the best …

2016年10月18日 · We know that we can use "way" as an adverb of emphasis to mean "to a great degree" for example . way too much way too expensive way too complicated . My question is …

2019年2月27日 · Another way to think about it is that something "on the way" is convenient, while something "in the way" is an obstruction. It's possible to have both in the same sentence: On …

That way, no matter how bad things seemed at the time, we knew that everything would turn out okay. The mustard seed way. in this way is certainly quite formal, but the informal version of it …