I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!

[Alan]

Hi Tamara,

A breeze is when everything goes without any problems. You can also say 'it went swimmingly'. But there is no idea of a quarrel to my mind.

Alan
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[Tamara]

Hi Alan,

The meaning ("a breeze" (noun) as "a quarrel") was given to me (as quite possible) by Babylon English-English - available now from the main forum's page - directly.

breeze: n. light wind; quarrel, feud

I actually didn’t know that before, was surprised and have asked :)
(Of course, I've taken your post with "we were delighted" with much more pleasant/delightful meaning. :) )

Tamara
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[Alan]

Hi Tamara,

This expression is akin to a walk in the park or a piece of cake - both suggesting there are no problems in the way.

Alan
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[Foah]

[Tamara]

Hi Alan,

[Tamara]

Hi Michael!

[Foah]

[Tamara]

[Alan]

Hi Tamara,

The line:

[Tamara]

[Yankee]

[Foah]

Hi!

What are you complaining about? :? Imagine, firstly I expected to write: Whatfrom do you have your German knowledge! :lol: But I refused that since I became aware that the English possibly might be more polite. :wink: At least one success from using your help!

Now, I?ll take the good advice in my mind and hope I can raise up my English skills furtheron. 8)

Michael

P.S. Hi Amy!

Good to have you here, too. 8)

Yes, the German idiom refers to the drive of the mill and the English idiom, you mentioned, to the product of the mill. Without one of that ingredients there weren?t any sense of a mill but to be a pretty nice sight.

Thanks for that, Amy!

By the way, interestingly, the English-word mill has lots of meanings: as it can mean in the Technical English a machine to work over steel and there also is the expression steel-mill what has nothing to do with any kind of grist but with bringing steel in form, doesn?t it?

Michael once again
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[Alan]

Hi Tamara,

I wouldn't worry about the preposition at the end of the sentence - it's certainly not formal. Formal is often when you put it at the beginning. You probably know the famous quote from Churchill who after all won a Nobel prize for literature who got very sniffy with an editor who had changed something he had written because his sentence ended with a preposition and said that it was a rule:

[Dark Magician]

Hi, Tamara

I see your post return has interesting and communion from all. :D
That not strange about you, because you have self is very wonderful. :wink:

I think it's good for everybody has knowledge's about another civilizations.
I call it "civilizations dialog ".

Best wishes.

Mba
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[Tamara]

Hi Dark magician! :)
Glad to see you!
Thank you. :)

Don’t get lost. Keep posting (despite sometimes it's not a pure dialogue :) )

Best wishes to you.
See you,
Tamara
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