Slang Lesson - 21/08/2018 General Notes: *bread and butter VS. the nuts and bolts: the former is more specific to a person while (e.g. "baking is my bread and butter") the latter is general ("Grammar is the nuts and bolts of teaching any language"). *(in) the home stretch = being in the final stage of something. *in two weeks time (and not "in two week time) - even tough with age it's different (a two-week-old baby). The reason is not that clear, might be because in the former we really talk about the amount of time. New - Slang: *bail on = not arriving at something scheduled with very little notice in advance (literal meaning - paying an amount of money to get someone out of jail before his / her trial). *feeling blue / in the blues = to feel down --> may be also used in phrases like "post-vacation blues" or "end-of-summer blues". *a buck/bucks = another name for the American dollar / some kind of money ("you look like a million bucks"). *cram = when one is studying really hard at the last minute before a test (an all-nighter for example). The literal meaning is just trying to compress and squeeze a large amount of something into some sort of a container. *crash = to fall asleep / the need to fall asleep or lay down (e.g. "I crashed on the couch"). Another meaning - "wedding-crasher". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *a creep = someone who makes you feel uncomfortable / used also as a verb. *couch potato *down to earth *for real - may be used as a statement/question. Nice quote: "Education is something that can never be taken away from you".