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Lids on Fire: Catfish and the Bottlemen Reviews

Live in Southend, April 8th, 2016 Expectations have reached almost fever pitch and a palpable tension holds you at knife-point. It is so close you can almost touch it and so far away that you stricken with grief. Fans of the lids are like rabid alligators biting their tails off to get their claws on their second album. Teasers of each song leaked online have...

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Reinventing the Idiom- It’s My Cup of Lapsong Souchong Thoughts and Essays

I love idioms in foreign languages. They make your words stand out from the rest of the language learning crowd. Students love to say “Il pleut des vaches” literally “it’s raining cows” which seems somehow much more appropriate for heavy rain than our use of cats and dogs. An idiom, of course, is a phrase or sentence where the words mean something which can’t readily...

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