WHY ARENT THERE ANY DEFINITIONS, ORIGINS AND USAGES?
Virtually all other web sites with phrases have definitions, which is their strength and also their limitation. The purpose of those sites is to explain the meaning and usage of phrases to people who are learning English as a second language or who just want to know more about a particular phrase. These are not the purposes of FRAZE.INFO. The purpose of FRAZE.INFO is to collect all the phrases used by those who learned English as their first language and already have a good idea of their meaning and usage. Most of us don’t know the origins of the phrases we use and, for most phrases, the origin is unknown. You can almost always find a definition or usage of a phrase at a search engine or www.wiktionary.com. But, to find a phrase that you can’t quite remember, or wonder if it really is a phrase, or want to find phrases that have a particular word, then FRAZE.INFO is your best bet. We want you to add phrases to make this site more useful to the other users. This is easy because you just
