2020年12月16日 · See no evil, hear no evil (It is a very close phrasing to what I need.) However, both sayings work for me and the only thing I need to make sure about is whether they are common in American English in my explained case.

2022年10月9日 · "Long time no see" is a jokey expression, imitating broken English, dating back to long before the invention of texting. No doubt in a non-face to face situation most people would understand "long time no hear" as being derived from the original phrase.

2024年1月12日 · ‘Evil eye’ gets far more hits on Google NGram because it’s a much more general term in English than the others and encapsulates a number of slightly different concepts from other cultures. ‘green-eyed monster’ is specifically a euphemism for envy or jealousy, ‘look daggers’ is specifically referring to wishing harm on someone ...

2016年7月7日 · To see no other choice is used idiomatically to mean "to perceive there to be no other reasonable choice" or "to perceive that there is no other choice that is any better than this one." For example, in your last sentence, While many in the hard to the ultra-right as well as the moderate right, vote Republican, it is because they see no other ...

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2024年6月26日 · (hoping to see you, hoping to hear from you, etc.). But to in look forward to is just a garden-variety preposition, as is at in the phrase looking back at. As a preposition, it should be followed by a noun phrase: I'm looking forward to his return; I'm looking forward to the next installment; I'm looking forward to your response

2024年8月27日 · A number of European languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Italian) do use 'no?', 'non?' as normal, idiomatic tag questions, so that such an utterance in English is a cliché of 'foreign-ness', e.g. in lazily written novels. According to @TimR, The "no" tag is heard in American English but it's not used colloquially.

"I don't hear" may indicate that there is no sound to be heard: I don't hear anyone out there. In general, both the simple present and the present progressive forms of sense verbs are used. Often the difference between them is only the difference you'd expect from the tenses - one (progressive) describes an ongoing event, the other (simple ...

Along these same lines, you might occasionally hear No shit! when someone thinks the other person is not being honest. Again, the response is entirely pat and sarcastic. John: Barack Obama just called to say he'll be stopping by for tea. Jane: No shit! And note that the person telling the lie may have no idea whether the response is sincere or ...

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