Win Out │ What does this phrasal verb mean?
Win out is a verb that essentially means the same as win – that is, “to win”, “to win”. However, the preposition out adds an important nuance to the verb: thus, win out not only means “to …
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Fill Someone’s Shoes │ What does this expression mean?
Fill someone’s shoes means, as you can see, “fill someone’s shoes” (or “fill someone’s shoes”, as the Google translator, always full of good intentions, suggests). But what this idiom really means is “taking someone’s …
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Cut The Crap | What does this expression mean?
Do you know when someone comes to tell us something, usually negative, and goes around and around? We start to get impatient, wanting the person to get to the point in …
Real Quick | What does this expression mean?
There are some expressions in English that, despite not being 100% grammatically correct and not accepted by the “cults” of the language, are widely used in the daily lives of …
Off The Mark │ What does this expression mean?
Among the heaps of results that the word mark has, we find the following: “target”, “objective”. Hit the mark , “hit the target”. Off the mark? “Off target”. As you can see, off the mark means that someone …
Look Alike | What does this expression mean?
The verb look is mega versatile and is used to form many phrasal verbs and expressions in English. For example, we’ve already talked here on the site about the phrasal verbs Look Ahead , Look Into and Look After , in addition …
In The Doghouse | What does this expression mean?
When I was a kid, my favorite cartoon – by far! – it was Peter Pan. And one of the scenes that made me most sorry was when they sent Naná, the dog …