I have been reading a book titled "Hillbilly Elegy," and I have its Korean translation too. But at some part, especially which I am curious about in meaning, the translation seems so uncertain, so I want someone who is a native English speaker to let me know what this "get to" means by here. If ...

Let me share some part of the book, and I would appreciate if you give me the answer to my question. There were undoubtedly many of these children and grandchildren, as hillbillies tended to have much higher birthrates than the native population. In short, my grandparents' experience was...

I just stumbled across the expression of Moiliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme of Monsieur Jourdaine having been speaking prose for all of his life. As far as I understand this is used today as a metaphor (correct rhetoric figure?) for if someone is doing something of high achievement without noticing...

Here, Malcolm is talking to Macduff as they are now determined to overthrow Macbeth. Generally speaking, I know what is going on but I'm not sure what Malcolm means by "cheer" and "night" that never finds the day. Isn't it that all nights, no matter how long, are finally followed by days? Com...

I search unsuccessfully the sources of the following translations into english from Gorin no Sho, Miyamoto Musashi. It is not the version of Victor Harris from 1974. Many thanks mort In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won. & The important thing in strate...

I could not find many examples. I found some similes and metaphors.

From Far from the Madding Crowd: "What do you do on the farm?" "I do do carting things all the year, and in seed time I shoots the rooks and sparrows, and helps at pig-killing, sir." "How much to you?" "Please nine and ninepence and a good halfpenny where 'twas a bad one, sir--ma'am I m...