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  • It’s easy to get the wrong end of the stick

    Posted by on April 21, 2011

    Our next guest post in metaphorical English months comes from Frank Boers, an expert in the field of metaphor, phraseology and second language acquisition. He is Associate Professor at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. ____________ I remember that as a teenager learning English as [...]

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