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🗓️ 16 November 2022

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An idiom is a phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase; but some phrases become figurative idioms while retaining the literal meaning of the phrase. Categorized as formulaic language, an idiom's figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning.^[1] Idioms occur frequently in all languages; in English alone there are an estimated twenty-five million idiomatic expressions.

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0:00.0	Yeah, but my mile times are low.
0:03.7	I need to pick up the pace, but I can't seem to find a place to get more efficient,
0:07.4	you know?
0:08.4	What do you think you can do differently, man?
0:10.1	Well, you know, I thought if I could just get the rider under one arm and the bike over
0:14.3	my shoulder on the other side, it wouldn't be as awkward and I could probably move quicker.
0:18.2	So, so I've just been carrying them together, you know?
0:20.4	So, wait, so, so when you said you picked up biking, you didn't mean riding a bike?
0:25.5	Wait, you could ride a bike.
0:28.4	What did you think?
0:29.4	Like the...
0:30.4	Nevermind.
0:31.4	Okay.
0:32.4	Alright, next one.
0:33.4	How about whole nine yards?
0:34.4	Ooh, good one.
0:35.4	Let's see.
0:37.4	The whole nine yards is a reference to the fighter pilots during World War II.
0:44.6	When they landed their ammunition was defeated, they obviously had to give their all-in-battle
0:50.6	W-W-2 ammunition came strung together in a nine-yard length.
0:55.5	It's to give the whole nine yards is to give your all.
0:59.0	Okay.
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