Odessa Dawn
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- Joined
- Aug 10, 2012
- Location
- Saudi Arabia
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- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Arabic
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- Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- Saudi Arabia
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1- "Have your cake and eat it"
2- "Have cake and eat it too"
Unfortunately for ESL students, we commonly truncate common idioms, proverbs, clichés etc, expecting listeners to finish them for themselves.
A: 'So many people have given me their advice I just don't know what to do.'
B: 'That's your problem: too many cooks....'
A: 'I'll just have to wait and see what happens.'
B: 'That'll be best. Don't count your chickens....'
Doesn't this happen in other languages?
Rover
Does dropping the adverb too right here as Rover said "expecting listeners to finish them for themselves" or it is an optional?