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And he said as much

Today, I'm going to do a little test on you. I'm going to give examples first and let you guess out the meaning of a common English idiom.

I got the inspiration the other day from answering a question (What does "as much" mean in a sentence like "And he said as much). Whenever I get a question (that I would like to answer), I scramble for the dictionary (ha). And I often fail to get a satisfactory answer (which is to say not that I'm a dunce but that authorities are not always as helpful as you think they should be). Then I give as good an explanation as I can. At last, I offer concrete examples to help readers cement their impression.

This last practice is consistent with my age-old belief that language-learning is more a matter of practical use than a labyrinth of grammatical rules to puzzle over, more of a reality to experience than a mental problem to solve. Often, as I have often said in these pages, one can work out the meaning of a word, set phrase or idiom just by meeting them a few times. Yes, much in the same way we remember new acquaintances. The first (few) times we face them, we don't recognize them. We sometimes try to remember them by murmuring their names (because they are ranking officials in certain industries who might be useful to us in future. You know, when fall in need of authorities somehow – you never know, you know). But however we may try, we fail.