to feel like a million dollarsor> bucks(US) →sentirsea las milmaravillas she's one in a million→esúnica, esfuera delocomún Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 19...
For example, 370 is expressed as three hundred and seventy in British English and sometimes as three hundred seventy in American English. He got nine hundred and eighty-three votes. Eduardo won a hundred fifty dollars. Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011,...
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...twenty years old an' holdin' a second mate's ticket, for I'd been battin' around the world on clipper ships since I was fourteen, an' I'd bit my way to the front quicker than most. Bull was a big dark man, edgin' up onto the thirty mark. His great grandmother'd been a...
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Or maybe it was that moment, when one year ago I sat down across from my live-in boyfriend of two years and by the end of the evening I was not only short the $25 dollars for the cost of the meal, but I had to subtract one boyfriend and one apartment from that scenario. ...