Although I have never heard this phrase used, I would like to point out that the word "dumb" in this example, means "unable to speak" (as in a handicap). Example: The unfortunate child was born blind, deaf and dumb.

Examples of similar meanings: Where are you going for your vacation? Taiwan, of course. Taiwan, naturally. Taiwan -- Where else? Taiwan, for sure.

"To be embarrased" is the verb form. Embarrasment is the noun. To say that "there will be embarrassment" or "embarrassment was caused by..." is the "passive voice". This phrase alone: "There will be embarassement for the U.S." tells us who will be embarrassed, but does not tell us who (or what) caused the embarrassment.

For someone to “feel at home” means that they like the familiar surroundings. Examples: Joe feels at home in a smoke-filled country-western bar. I feel right at home when I am sitting on a rock, by a camp-fire in the woods. ---- Music is best appreciated in its appropriate venue. Marching-band music goes better with a parade than with a funeral. Classical music played with a cello and a guitar goes better with fine-dining than, say, a heavy-metal rock band.

I am not sure how important it is for people to learn idioms such as this. Some idioms are found in old movies, but not used by the younger generation as much. To use them today is somewhat comical -- always puts a smile on my face. A frugal person: miser, cheapskate, skinflint, penny-pincher. I think the most used would be cheapskate as in, “My girlfriend thinks I am a cheapskate because I won’t buy her flowers on her birthday.” Comical terms for dollars: bucks, clams, simoleons, smackers, greenbacks. Comical terms for money: cash, loot, dough, bread. Comical term for someone who spends too much money: Wife Examples: Believe it or not, there were young girls lined up at the department store to shell out 80 clams for a pair of designer jeans. The leader of the sales team said, “How are we going to convince the public to fork over their hard-earned dough to buy our worthless widgets.” I bet my friend that the Seattle Sea-Hawks would win the game. As soon as the game ended, I held my hand out and said, “Alright... Cough it up!”

I would say, "I made a mistake..." as the start of an explaination of what happened or to offer an excuse for my behavior. You would say, "it is my fault" when there may be a question of who made the mistake and you want to take the blame and move on. If you are playing volleyball, and you get in the way of your team-mate and lose the point, you say "That was my fault" and that lets everyone know that you are correcting yourself. To say "That's my bad" is new and hip and very light-hearted (and yes... American).

I would use "cable" to refer to something ready-to-use with the ends on it already. Example: I need an HDMI cable to hook up my TV to my Blue-Ray player. "Wires" refers to more generic non-specific wiring. Example: Don't look behind my entertainment system because it is just a big, tangled mess of wires! There are times when (in common usage) these can be interchanged. Example: You'll need to run a cable across your attic. or: You'll need to run a wire across your attic. These can mean the same thing even though there may be multiple wires in the cable.

I would like to point out that Hanging with a rope is a form of execution that is no longer practiced in western cultures. It is common to see "Hanging" depicted in films of the old "Wild" West in America. "Hanging" with a rope does not typically mean tripping or rock-climbing, etc.