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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

idioms

is it very important to learn idioms?
  

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Anonymous is it very important to learn idioms? You bet!

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous is it very important to learn idioms?
  • You bet!
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Anonymousis it very important to learn idioms?
You bet!
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Mister Micawber's response made me smile ("you bet" is idiomatic form of "yes,") but I would advise against it. Idioms change rapidly and, as a non-native speaker, you have no way of knowing what is current. When you add in the tendency for native speakers to use out of date idioms in an ironic sense, you run a very real chance of looking foolish. You may pick up idioms in conversation with peers,
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AnonymousYou may pick up idioms in conversation with peers, but I would not attempt to learn them.
If you are not familiar with idioms, you don't understand English correctly.

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