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Meaning of essay in English

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• I want to finish off this essay before I go to bed .
• His essay was full of spelling errors .
• Have you given that essay in yet ?
• Have you handed in your history essay yet ?
• I'd like to discuss the first point in your essay.
• boilerplate
• composition
• corresponding author
• dissertation
• essay question
• peer review
• go after someone phrasal verb
• go all out idiom
• go down swinging/fighting idiom
• go for it idiom
• go for someone phrasal verb
• shoot for the moon idiom
• shoot the works idiom
• smarten (someone/something) up phrasal verb
• smarten up your act idiom
• square the circle idiom

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free to do what you like and go where you like because you have no responsibilities such as a family or a relationship

A safe pair of hands (Newspaper idioms)

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