“In a jiffy” means very soon or very quickly. Here is the simple meaning, the older sense of jiffy, and how the phrase is used today.
What “in a jiffy” means, and where it came from
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Evidential Stance Markers Exercise
- C2
C2 Proficiency; focus: evidential stance markers expressing source, inference, appearance, hearsay, allegation, assumption, and contrast between stated and actual grounds.
100 Adjectives Every Educated Adult Should Know
Think your vocabulary is well rounded? These 100 essential adjectives reveal the words educated adults know, and a few you may be missing.
What “knee-high to a grasshopper” means and where it comes from
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This colorful expression means very young or very small. Learn the image behind it and see how people use it in natural sentences.
A Few and A Little Exercise
- A2
A2 ESL multiple-choice gap-fill exercise on “a few” with countable plural nouns and “a little” with uncountable nouns.
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