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Back to Learn English from Mistakes
"She who laughs last,
laughs best!"
"Laughter is the
best medicine."
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, trip over a big bag of garbage and fall on the sidewalk breaking a bone or two and you fall alone!"
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English Speaker's Mistake Two
Complaining About a Dog
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A resident of a flat (an apartment) in the U.K. wrote a letter of complaint about a neighbor's dog. Here is one
funny sentence:
"It's the dog's mess that I find hard to swallow."
Explanation: The problem here is with the expression "hard to swallow". It is an "idiom", which means
we should not think about the meaning of each word, but instead we should think of the meaning of the whole
expression. This whole expression ("hard to swallow") actually means "hard to accept" or "hard to live with".
However, in the case of a dog's mess, we can imagine the person trying to "swallow" it (eat it)! That really
WOULD be difficult! (^_^)
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