
Confused by modern idioms?
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Idioms of the Internet
If something is ubiquitous, it seems to appear everywhere. Ground hog day describes a situation in which events that happened before happen again in exactly the same way. The modern idiom break the internet means to cause so much excitement about something on line that you can make the web side crash. Social media outlets like twisser have also created their own idioms,. A trivial problem does not seem very important when compared to serious problems faced by people in poorer parts of the world.
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