I would use "I learned the phrase from a podcast."

"Yours" is a possessive pronoun == " le vôtre/le tien/la tienne" "Yours" is replacing "your office". We could also have written: "My office is farther away from the station than your office is. Il se trouve de plus loin que le vôtre. There is also some omission at the end of the sentence because the information is understood from the context. An extra specific version of this sentence could read: "My office is farther away from the station than your office is from the station." But this would be too wordy.

I hope to find a [speaking/writing] partner

Hi everyone! 
My name is Zainab I'm from Saudi Arabia. 
I'm in customer services, so I need to be patient  all the time with clients.  BETTER: so I need to be patient with clients all the time.
I love my job, but I'd like to develop myself by improving my English language skills first. 
Thanks, 
Zoz (:

Interesting question. The word "off" here is a preposition. It means "from" as in "to be separated or removed from something else". This is the literal meaning. The literal interpretation is that the idea or explanation which you know very well, sits at the top of your head. If you don't know the concept very well, then it is not on top of you head so then you can't get it "off the top of your head". This phrase is idiomatic and should not be interpreted literally. English speakers are definitely not thinking about any literal meanings when they hear or utter this phrase. Therefore the most useful interpretation of this phrase is that you cannot provide the information sought without some time to think or other aids like a book or the internet, which ties in with the "not immediately" connotation as in the answer given by Altini.

"Better working free than being idle" -- this sounds a bit strange to me. Did you mean, "better working for free than being idle" ? If you meant that it is better to be a free person who works than it is to be an idle person then that is true, but does not fit with the "better A than B" locution. Usually when using "better A than B" both options are not ideal but one is a bit better for some reason. For this same reason, "better gold than silver" is also strange because gold is obviously better than silver and might very well be ideal. Just like it is better to work than to be idle. At this point, you might point out that "safe" is obviously better than "sorry". However the implication here is that you are choosing between two options: one that is "safe" or low risk, and only somewhat rewarding and another that has the potential to be highly rewarding, but is very risky and may go wrong, which would cause you to be "sorry". As you can see, neither situation is ideal but one is a little bit better than the other. "better correct some of my phrases exactly than correct all of them carelessly" You should use "carefully" or "meticulously" instead of "exactly". Correcting something "exactly" is not a turn of phrase in English. It isn't grammatically incorrect, it just sounds non-native. The other phrases seem fine to me.

They can be interchangeable. "You need to calm down." == "You need to cool down." "We'll talk when you calm/cool down." "Calm down!" is a bit more intense than "Cool down!" "Calm down" is more popular. I think "cool down" sounds a little less formal. We often say, "cool/calm [someone] down" when we are referring to making that person less emotional. "Take a walk and cool yourself down." "This piece of cake will calm you down." You can also say "cool off" and use it in th ways described above. "Take a walk and cool yourself off." "Take a walk and cool off." (Just to be thorough, "calm off" can NEVER be used.) "Cool down" or "cool off" can have other more literal meanings "I fanned myself to cool down." Here, you literally wanted to lower your temperature. It is also a term used in exercising. In this case it refers to doing some less intense exercise to allow the body to return to a resting state or to lower its temperature.

Are you looking for an adjective or a noun? "Exaggerator" is a noun. It is also totally a word, if not a formal one. You can also call someone who exaggerates, a "hyperboliser/hyperbolizer". The "-er" suffix creates nouns which refer to people, from verbs. It is a living suffix, which means you can add it to just about any English verb to create a noun which refers to a person. You won't always find these nouns in dictionaries and sometimes they are rather informal, but they are still valid. eg: "Don't worry about Hawash; he's an exaggerator. He's fine." If you're looking for adjectives to describe people who exaggerate, then you can say they are "melodramatic" or "theatrical". eg. "Hawash is just being melodramatic. He's fine." ----------------------- As an aside, you should say, "looking for" not, "looking about".