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I just Googled "have ago at it" in quotes. Oddly, the first hit was in an English-Albanian dictionary of idioms. When I clicked on the link, the highlighted term that comes up in the text is "have a go at it".

Google can't be trusted.

- My friend and I are searching for some data on a/my/our/his computer, but we can't find it. We might to say one of these sentences: The data is gone. The data gone. No complete verb in this non-sentence. The data is missing. "The" computer sounds a little strange out of context as I don't know whi...

The second sentence is fine ... grammatically. In the "more X than Y" construction, "I am afraid of" and "(I am) loving" aren't well matched. It's sort of "more state than action" when it should be "more state than state" or "more action than action". I am more fearful of my dad than (I am) loving t...

While I'd expect a new one to be over 30,000 USD, the value of any used car can go all the way down to zero. Just for fun I had already checked a used car site and they had a few 2005 ES350s for less than 15,000 with about 80,000 miles on them.

While we're being esthetic...

Bobinwales wrote:advert for MacDonalds

was it an ad for McDonald's? ;-)

If you're using a $, there are definitely 2 L's in installments.

All of the bootlicking synonyms you list would involve doing everything the boss asked and more - fawning, obsequious (obedient and attentive in a servile manner), servile. It's hard to see where not doing your job would fit in with that.

You still need to work on "What is a sentence?" All the employees in our company work very hard, but Susan is very lazy. The boss always plays favorites with her because she's very good at flattering the boss. If you don't want the obsessively logical thinkers wondering whether Susan is an employee:...

I'm with trolley. "is" is correct.

I wouldn't be surprised to find the first one in a business communication, but I would be a little surprised by the second. While the second one gets a great many more Google hits, the large number seems to be primarily because it is included in a great many lists of old proverbs rather than actual ...

Phrasing "wishes" is tricky. "I wish you would do something" sounds like I'm wishing for my own sake rather than for yours that you would do something about something under your control, e.g. I wish you would take out the trash (so I don't have to). I also get the idea that A feels it is B's fault t...

As Robert Heinlein says: TANSTAAFL - There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Adding a ? to a statement doesn't make it a question. "Do you eat outside or does your company give you ...?" is how standard questions are phrased in English. "Do you eat outside?" could mean "Do you eat outdoors?". It ...

It's hard to make this sound natural because the situation is making assumptions that are foreign to us. In addition to loving new car smell (knowing that it is the smell of vinyl fumes, carpet glue, and leather cleaner), I'm not sure: Are you renting cars? Calling a taxi service? Buying a new car e...

No. "What's with you people?" implies that there is something wrong with the people being addressed, e.g. "What's with you people? Are you deranged?" There is in fact something majorly wrong with these people and A evidentally knows it so this is okay. I just want to be sure you don't think this is ...

Until you come up with a night specific activity, it still won't make any sense. Also, we could play soccer or badminton at someone's house for 10 minutes at any time of day or night. At least with golf, you had picked an activity where you have to go somewhere and spend a few hours doing it. "gotta...