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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
How would you write the sentences?
How would you write the sentences?
He manages to turn the conversation around so that he talks about himself.
It's those who talk the most who do the least. [is this an idiom?]
Thanks
He manages to turn the conversation around so that he talks about himself.
It's those who talk the most who do the least. [is this an idiom?]
Thanks
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Both those sentences are already correct. There is no need to change them. I wouldn't call the second one an idiom.
- Both those sentences are already correct.
- There is no need to change them.
- I wouldn't call the second one an idiom.
- It sounds as if it may be a minor saying (something that people often repeat), but actually there seems to be only one Google hit, at least for that exact wording, so on that reckoning it would not even count as a saying.
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Both those sentences are already correct. There is no need to change them.
I wouldn't call the second one an idiom. It sounds as if it may be a minor saying (something that people often repeat), but actually there seems to be only one Google hit, at least for that exact wording, so on that reckoning it would not even count as a saying.
I wouldn't call the second one an idiom. It sounds as if it may be a minor saying (something that people often repeat), but actually there seems to be only one Google hit, at least for that exact wording, so on that reckoning it would not even count as a saying.
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