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idioms - How do you use smooth sailing idiomatically? - English . . . 1 How do you use "smooth sailing" idiomatically? Can someone explain to me how to use "smooth sailing" idiomatically? I thought it was a verb, but being an idiom I am wondering if you can use is as if it was an ordinary phrase
Usage of smooth - English Language Learners Stack Exchange The "smooth" could be replaced by "confident" or "competent" The sense of disapproval comes from that confidence or competence being excessive Everything in the quoted definition except for the words "showing disapproval" applies to both "too smooth" and "not smooth enough" -- the part that shows disapproval is the "too"
Thats part of the deal meaning - English Language Learners Stack . . . In a way you are right in your understanding that we can only use the cards we have been dealt, "the deal" in card play What Leonardo is saying is that hard times should be expected, nothing is always smooth sailing, generally it's part of the "deal" of being alive
How to ask someone idiomatically if he she feels hot or cold? I'm not a native English user, so when I want to ask someone if he she feels hot cold, I will ask the question as per the grammar: Are you hot? Are you cold? But I wonder how do Americans or Bri
phrase usage - Youre keeping well vs You keep doing well - English . . . No, they mean different things "Keeping well" means "keeping healthy" So "I hope you're keeping well" is a slightly old fashioned greeting It might be addressed to an older person (for whom being "well" might be in some doubt) I can't imagine a child using it with their friends To "keep doing well" is not an idiom "Well" is the adverb related to "good" The speaker is hoping that the
difference - Smoothing or smoothening (smooth smoothen) - English . . . You make things smooth - you smoothe or smoothen them (and while these were appearing in different proportions in the past, they have nearly evened out nowadays) The activity though is called smoothing (a surface) or smoothing out (faults, creases, folds, whatever disturbs the surface) smoothening is definitely not a term in common use
Polite way of asking for response as soon as possible The formulation you quoted is not clear - the problem is not in the grammar of if, but in the misused vocab Your formulation where you explained what you meant: since the question is simple enough I wish to get answered as quickly as possible while rather blunt and not exactly polite is far easier to understand It is not really a matter of language, but I don't think that there is a polite