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Bookmark or Share- Is there an idiom for "getting popular"? - English Language Learners ...It's getting noticed; becoming fashionable; climbing the charts; it's crowd pleasing; people are favoring it; it has caught on; it has gone viral (that's a new one, and I like it a lot); it's leading the way; it's becoming very in-demand; people are loving it.
- How to use "get late"? - English Language Learners Stack ExchangeSentence: "It's getting late, I've got to go" That's idiomatic, yes. The entire phrase refers to time: it's getting late. The it is called a dummy pronoun and refers to a time. Dummy pronouns are used a lot in English: "It's odd that you think my letter is good." However, a person is late. A person does not "get late".
- Get there or Reach there? Which one is of more proper usage?There is no difference in meaning. Just the former is more idiomatic than the latter as "get there" sounds more natural. To get, to arrive and to reach all could be used with "there", however, to get there is the most idiomatic phrase and to arrive there and to reach there are used far less as indicated in the linked Ngram Viewer.
- What are the differences between "there" & "in there".?You usually use the word there as an adverb, but it can be used as a noun/pronoun. When you say "Don't go there", you are using the there as an adverb meaning "to that place". So Don't go there = Don't go to that place. As a noun, the there means "that place". The preposition "in" means inside. So Don't go in there = Don't go inside that place.
- Does "I'm on it" mean "I'm doing it" or "I'm going to do it"?Yes, it usually implies that the person who says it is either already actively working on a problem or just a few seconds away from beginning to start actively working on a problem. Think logically about it for a second. If something is on the table or on the news, it's not in the process of getting there. It's already there!
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