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Funny English idioms and their meaning

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Often in English you can hear phrases or expressions that confuse any foreigner for whom English is not their first language.

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These are idioms, or phraseological units, which for English-speaking people are an integral part of daily communication. About some of them, funny and unusual, we will tell in this post.

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