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Kaddamore

good one!

proverbial horse

Hi! Could you please tell me the difference between ‘in-laws’ and ‘relatives’? Many thanks.

Alona

Alona Pavlovna

    Hi Alona,

    In-laws are family that you get when you get married. In other words, it’s your spouse’s family that now is now also yours. They are then also relatives, but not by blood.

    Relatives refers to all family, both blood relatives and in-laws.

    Does this help?

    Adam

Dear Adam, idioms are always useful for foreign learners. Some sound funnily like “Bob´s your uncle”.
Thank you very much.

Arminius

Thank you Adam!

Lalananana

Thank you so much I really apreciate the lesson and I believe that my English is improving day after Day. Thanks James and Adam. A big hug from Angola, South East África.

Jacob Paulo

“bury the hatchet” in french we do have a rather similar expresion “enterrer la hache de guerre”

Aladup

    Thanks for letting us all know. I’m sure it sounds great in French :)

    Adam

Thank you very much Adam. All the teachers at Engvid seem nice, but you more than the others ;-).

Aladup

    Thanks Aladup :)

    Adam

I am proud of you and me because the quiz was perfect after listening to your explanations just once. Thanks Adam.

beernaard

    A pat on each of our backs :)

    Thanks Beernaard

    Adam

Great ,I started learning yesterday and I got 8/10 in yesterday lesson ,but I got 9/10 in today’s lesson.

Sakeenah

    10/10 tomorrow then :)

    Good work, Sakeenah

    Adam

7 out of 10

kholio911

its great one. thank you teacher

Riazmahin

HI ADAM, I HOPE YOU ARE OK. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY SOME PEOPLE USE THE EXPRESSION “I CAN`T HELP EATING” AND THE VERB CAN MEANS PARAR IN THIS SENTENCE. ESPERO ME PUEDAS ENTENDER. GRACIAS.

dulce.ara

    Hi Dulce,

    ‘can’t help’ means that you want to stop doing something or you don’t want to do something, but you do it anyway. You have no self-control over the action.

    It doesn’t have to be about eating:

    I can’t help feeling sorry for him. (you say this about someone you don’t like but you feel bad anyway when something bad happens to him).

    I can’t help looking at it, even though it’s disgusting.

    I can’t help thinking she likes me (though I have no reason to think that).

    Does this help?

    Adam

Thanks everyone :)

Adam

7/10

anyways thanks sir….

khan490

10 out of 10. Thanks, Adam, for this lesson!

Nikita

Hi Adam. I hope you are ok. I want to ask whether idiom ‘ Pay the piper’ has a similar meaning to ‘face the music’ or not?

Behrouz70

    Hi Behrouz,

    Excellent question.

    Yes, they have a similar connotation. Both suggest dealing with difficult consequences.

    Pay the piper has a slightly deeper idea of having to lose something or do something you don’t like (as a punishment or payment) whereas face the music simply means dealing with what the result may be.

    Hope this helps.

    Adam

Adam, thank you very much!

Marikash

why does people use this ‘ in english.

saleem2013
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