EVERY DAY IDIOMS There comes a time when you need to "take the bull by the horns" and go "full speed ahead" with your English in the real world. At the risk of sounding "like a broken record," you must practice, practice, practice and practice outside of the classroom everything you have studied and learned in the classroom. Then one day "out of the blue," the realization will "hit you" that you're having a conversation in English and you are being understood just "as clear as a bell". Idioms are expressions used and understood in a given language, but their meaning cannot be taken in a literal sense. Americans use idioms in everyday speech without even being aware that they're doing so, and most Americans are "in the dark" as to the origin of idioms, but that's "a horse of a different color." The most important point is that in order for idioms to become "second nature...