Check Out Idioms and Preferred Grammar Usage With Google
Correct grammar is important, but sometimes grammar checking and proofreading is not enough. If you’re unsure of your preferred phrase, try using Google to see what’s popular.
At Problogger, they give a few examples: Do people more often say “sitting at” or “sitting at” the drawing board? When you Google both phrases, “sitting at the drawing board” gives you thousands of results. This is your advice that this is the preferred usage – just remember to enclose the entire phrase in quotation marks.
This trick isn’t a substitute for correct proofreading, but it’s a quick way to find out if you’re using a phrase the way most people do.
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