Advanced American Idioms 🇺🇸 | LIVE QUIZ LESSON

Learning idioms is great from your English comprehension. In the United States, we use them all the time in everyday conversation.
And in this lesson, I want to teach you some advanced idioms that are a bit more challenging and difficult to understand. But after you learn the meaning of these idioms, you'll greatly improve your comprehension.
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At the end of one's rope "На грани" In Russian Something like " At the edge" Dear Wes, Can we use the verb " suspense" In that case too? Awaiting your soonest reply!

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