English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
SOME MORE IDIOMS
When someone thanks you, you should say ‘ ~don’t mention~ ‘ (nonstandard).
When someone thanks you, you should say ‘ don’t mention it ‘ (standard). The idiom is ‘don’t mention it’.
Many are hungry in a country where politicians are ~stinkingly rich~ (nonstandard).
Many are hungry in a country where politicians are stinking rich (standard). Although ‘stinkingly’ is the adverbial form of the word ‘stinking’, the idiom is expressed as being stinking rich.
GAB
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