English’s ‘Mile’ Expressions Are a Mile Long — VOA Learning English
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And now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English.
In the United States, many people use the English system for measuring. While some people use the metric system, our idioms and expressions often stick with measurement words from the English system.
Today, we talk about expressions using the word mile. And we have miles and miles of them! That means we have a lot.
For example, if you can run a mile a minute, you can run very fast. So, we can use the expression “a mile a minute” to describe people who do things very quickly.
For example, Sarah was very excited about her trip! When she told us about it, she talked a mile a minute. We could barely follow what she was saying!
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Торкнись будь-якого слова — переклад з’явиться одразу, а слово ляже в твою добірку разом із реченням.