English Vocabulary

  a knuckle sandwich  informal (a punch in the mouth) Tell me the truth before I give you a knuckle sandwich. You’ll get a knuckle sandwich if you don’t stop shouting.     envocabulary.com

  know which side the bread is buttered (on) (to know how to treat someone in order to get what you want) I know which side my bread is buttered on, so I always try to please our customers. John is rude to his father. He doesn’t know which side …

We use the future perfect tense to express an action that will be completed before a particular time or before another action in the future. I will have eaten lunch by two p.m. At eight o’clock, he will have left for work. We will have finished the project by the …

  We use the future perfect progressive tense (also called the future perfect continuous tense) to express the duration of an action that will be in progress until a specific time in the future. In July, I will have been learning English for three years. By the next year, you …

  We use the future progressive tense (also called the future continuous tense) to express a situation or action in progress at a specific time in the future. We will be waiting for you when you arrive. You will be cooking tomorrow at 11 a.m. They will be helping me do the …