Alice
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What are your top 5 favorite American English phrases?
List your 5 favorite American English phrases.

This is for English language learners only.
2020年1月2日 18:37
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some of the expressions and slang I like
. 1-I hear ya: I understand what you are saying
for example: I hear ya brother I wish we could all live like that.
2-Period:. period at the end of the sentence means, the things said in the sentence are definite and no change is allowed. 
I am not going to do it, period.
3-Bummer: downer, party pooper
example: she was a real bummer .
4-Tell me about it: I understand what you mean, acknowledge an unpleasant situation or experience
Example:
A: I had a bad day
B: tell me about it.
5-Couch potato:A person who is inactive and watches a lot of TV.
I am no couch potato, I workout everyday
6-Screw up: make a mistake
Don't screw up, you are almost there
7-Don't quote me on that: a statement about which a person is not sure if it entirely correct or not
Example:hmm 1875 I guess, but don't quote me on that
8-Get hyped: ecstatic, jazzed, excited
I am so hyped for this concert.
9-Wicked: Excellent
Woa, that's wicked. I want to be there too.
10-Psyched: excited
Example: I a so psyched about tomorrow's game.
11-Train wreck: a mess, a chaotic or disastrous situation.
She was a train wreck back then but look at her now.
12-No shit Sherlock: a phrase that is used to express sarcasm towards someone who is stating the obvious.
I only wrote 3 lines in my essay, I am going to fail this one
No shit Sherlock!
2020年1月3日
2
1-Are you kidding me?
2- what the hell is goin on?
3- super awesome
4-hell no
5-hell yeah
those came to my mind only.
2020年1月3日
2
Sergey,
Americans definitely say someone is a “jack of all trades”. We just don’t commonly finish the rest of it.
2020年1月2日
2
Hello, Alice. Number one - "Houston, we have a problem" is a popular but erroneous quotation from the radio communications between the Apollo 13 astronaut John ("Jack") Swigert and the NASA Mission Control Center ("Houston") during the Apollo 13 spaceflight, as the astronauts communicated their discovery of the explosion that crippled their spacecraft.
2020年1月2日
2

Whatever

For sure

Nuts

Seriously

Awesome!


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