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2. Truce term - Wikipedia

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   Crossed fingers are a common gesture accompanying truce terms in the UK, New Zealand and the US.. A truce term is a word or short phrase accepted within a community of children as an effective way of calling for a temporary respite or truce during a game or activity, such as tag or its variants.

3. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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   [1] [2] By another definition, an idiom is a speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements. [3] For example, an English speaker would understand the phrase "kick the bucket" to mean "to die" – and also to actually kick a bucket ...

4. List of English-language metaphors - Wikipedia

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   [2] Batten down the hatches, to secure the hatch covers against ingress of water in preparation for a storm or other rough conditions. Clear the decks to get everything out of the way as a warship went into action. [2] Show someone the ropes to show or explain to someone how to do a task or operation. Taken from the use of ropes to orient and ...

5. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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   A list of 100 words that occur most frequently in written English is given below, based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus (a collection of texts in the English language, comprising over 2 billion words). [1]

6. Wikipedia : Language learning centre/5000 most common words

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   These are 1100 of the most common words in American English in order of usage. This can be a particularly useful list when starting to learn a new language and will help prioritise creating sentences using the words in other languages to ensure that you develop your core quickly.

7. American English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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   American English has always shown a marked tendency to use nouns as verbs. [13] Examples of verbed nouns are interview, advocate, vacuum, lobby, pressure, rear-end, transition, feature, profile, spearhead, skyrocket, showcase, service (as a car), corner, torch, exit (as in "exit the lobby"), factor (in mathematics), gun ("shoot"), author (which disappeared in English around 1630 and was ...