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Originally Posted by dwig
#3 - completely wrong; the reporter doesn't know how to use the dictionaries. The dictionaries, at least the Oxford American that I use as default, has quite a number of definitions of phrases. After moving the cursor to the first work in the phase in question, one simply needs to press the return button to open the dictionary and read the rest of the definition and, often, page forward through the many related definitions to find the phase in question. A single "Back" press returns to your book.
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I would actually have to agree with the author on that one. Probably because English is a foreign language to me. I tend to open my definitions a lot to read through it all. Despite that, there are times when I'm forced to guess the intention of the author because there aren't any definition given for a phrase. This becomes even more apparent when you switch between UK and US books.