'well and truly stuck'的意思(2/2)

So, for example, if you say to someone in Britain the adverb, "stunningly". The adjective they're most likely to think of is "beautiful". These are what we call fixed phrases. They're phrases which just go together, they collocate, co locate, they go together. It's not just adverbs and adjectives which go together in this way. We often find nouns and nouns go together. So for example "fish and chips". Or adjectives and nouns, for example we can say "heavy smoker", someone who smokes a lot, or "heavy drinker" someone who drinks a lot. But someone who eats a lot? No it's not a "heavy eater" it's a "big eater". Basically these phrases which go together form patterns, there are no real rules to learn. You just have to be able to work out what the patterns are. So how do you learn these phrases which go together? Well the two best things you can do are to read and to listen. When you're reading a newspaper or a book try to work out phrases that you see coming up more than once. If you see a phrase which goes together maybe two or three times then you can think mmm I think those go together, I think those collocate. And similarly if you're listening to the radio, when you're listening to the BBC World Service if you hear the phrase two or three times, make a note of it, because then you know mmm this is a collocation, this is a phrase which goes together. So hopefully Katie that answers your question. To sum up, well and truly is an adverbial phrase and most often you use it with the adjective "stuck", "well and truly stuck". You can use it in one or two other circumstances, but usually you will hear it with the adjective "stuck". Although now I'm well and truly finished and I'm going to go and have a cup of tea.