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 Re: Problem with IDIOMS like "something to crow about"
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Originally Posted by azkad  Thanks for a detailed answer Tdol, but there is another problem for ESL leaners like me, I mean, how should we differentiate the difference between idioms used in colloquial and academic contexts? If there are any solutions, could you possibly provide some of them?
Thank you again. | One tool is this: [DAVIES/BYU] British National Corpus
It searches a huge database, but you can also set it only to search academic texts.  |