Explore expressions for ordinary conversations. Notice how the example connects the expression to a real situation.
Choose clean, well-fitting clothes that suit the role and workplace. Check whether the employer has a stated dress code, choose simple items you can move and sit in comfortably, and prepare the outfit before the interview day. If the setting is unclear, a tidy, modest outfit is a sensible starting point.
Keep your eyes peeled means watch carefully and stay alert for something you expect to see. It is usually followed by for and the thing or person to look for.
Kick the bucket means die. It has a casual, joking tone, so use it with care. In a condolence message, a news report, a medical setting, or a conversation with family members, say died or passed away if that is the wording the family uses.
Use should or ought to plus a base verb for ordinary advice: "You should call first." Use had better plus a base verb when the advice is urgent or a bad result is likely: "You'd better call first."
A money idiom is a fixed figurative phrase about money. Learn its usual meaning as one unit. For example, break the bank means cost more than someone can reasonably afford, not damage a bank.
Use one for a singular noun already understood, another for one more or a different singular item, other before a noun, and others without a noun. First decide whether the noun is singular, plural, or omitted.
To poke means to make a small, quick touch or push, often with a finger or a pointed object. A poke is one such action.
Use have or has been plus an -ing verb when an activity began earlier and continues now, or when a recent activity explains a result you can notice now.
Use raining cats and dogs when you want to say that rain is falling very heavily. The usual pattern is It is raining cats and dogs or It was raining cats and dogs. For a forecast, warning, or practical instruction, say heavy rain or describe the expected conditions directly.
Use short forms such as msg, mins, and btw in casual messages when the reader will understand them. Use complete words and a clear request for work, school, customer service, or a first message to someone you do not know well.
Use will for most future statements and questions. Use shall mainly with I or we for offers, suggestions, and questions such as Shall I open the window? and Shall we start?
A simile is a comparison that helps you imagine a quality. It commonly uses like or as. In The suitcase was as heavy as a rock, the suitcase is not a rock; the comparison suggests that it was very heavy.