" Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Most of the time, I can figure out the meanings of various Seppongo
> idioms from the context (although I recently discovered I'd gone wildly
> wrong with "take a rain check"), but there's one idiom that's confusing
> me. Is there a website somewhere that gives detailed explanations?
> Googling on the phrase in question just brings up pages that use it, not
> a description of what it means.
>

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ is a start - a free one that is.  Other
sites all seem to want you to subscribe.

Yahoo Reference http://tinyurl.com/i0af is a service I often use, especially
to check verb inflections.  I forget which is more appropriate - for example
"spilt" or "spilled". It would be nice to have a dictionary site that
allowed for poor spellers.  I usually find myself asking Google to tell me
"Did you mean....?" and then checking the definition at Yahoo.

The Yahoo site is excellent for country maps.  Just enter the country name
in the word search box.  They're just the right size to turn into small
game-sized flash cards (I get the country flags from the CIA World Factbook
site http://tinyurl.com/i0aw)

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jonathan