grammatically unique noun which implies nothing will happen! When I get nervous, I tend to babble. "To babble" is to talk aimlessly, or say lots of nonsense. The Golden Gate. The world-famous bridge crossing the San Francisco Bay. Wells discovers modern romance. You're a good driver. :: Damn straight! Amy's way of saying "you're right about that!" He taught me, and he was in stock-car rallies. These are auto races that are popular with working class Americans. My ex. A very common way to refer to one's former husband or wife, or even ex-boyfriend or girlfriend. He wanted me to do the housewife routine. Here, "routine" is used to mean something that is done mechanically, over and over again. She wanted me to be routine. When used to describe a person, "routine" can mean average or common place, though it's rarely used this way. I like the "little boy lost" quality that you give off. "To give off" is a good phrasal verb meaning to resonate or emit. Red Shoes. I really got off on that. Another idiomatic classic: Here, "to get off" means to really enjoy, and used as such, it can have a strong sexual connotation. Of course you can simply "get off the bus," and if someone tells you to "get off of it," they're probably telling you to stop fooling around and be serious. What on earth is that? A way to add a sense of surprise to any "Wh question." Hell, I've never even been to London. Often used colloquially at the beginning of a sentence to show mild anger or frustration. Cosmopolitan. An important word meaning worldly or sophisticated. The TV is mainly crap. "Crap" is a crude but important word meaning horrible or bad (or literally, "shitty"). My friend Carol is checking up on you. "To check up on" someone is to make sure that they are doing OK. Let me get on with it. Here, a good way to say start or continue. Is London crawling with Arabs? She wants to marry into oil. If a city is "crawling with" a certain group of people, this means that there are lots of them around. A modern "Jack the Ripper" strikes in San Francisco, and Wells decides that he must warn the police. There are no leads as yet. "Leads" are clues or evidence that help people find the truth of a situation, often used in the context of a criminal investigation. A detective in Scotland Yard. The English equivalent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). They'd pack me off to a lunatic asylum. This is a home where crazy people are housed. Try to sort things out. "To sort things out" is to organize things in order to see them clearly. I never would have pegged you as a detective. "To peg" someone is to think of them as being a particular way. You look like the cat that ate the canary.
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