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American English makes more use of word pictures than the King's English (UK), expressed in phrases like "a month of Sundays", "I'll be a monkey's uncle...", etc. To most people outside the US, these are unintelligible phrases that defy translation. Of course, the US is not exclusive in this type of usage, but we seem to create new colloquialisms "at the drop of a hat" (another such phrase), and sometimes these get popular use worldwide. Americans don't generally adopt phrases from overseas ver…