Phrasal verbs are the bane of english language learners. It's one of the weird things that natives speakers don't notice until they are mentioned by someone learning english or they become an english major.
Wipe out, mull over, look up to. These are just some of the phrasal verbs you want to think over.
Not “most likely”. He can definitely see through the cards since he mentions it to Worf in an episode. He only does it after the hand is played but even that could be considered cheating since he might be able to tell what your bluffs look like.
No one said he couldn't speak elvish. Just that it wasn't his mother tongue. That's what "...as a second language learner" means. That the person isn't a native speaker so they may sometimes be confused by phrases and think they are meant literally instead of as an idiom. Or they might confuse one meaning of a word for another. As someone who speaks another language, trust me when I say that it can be a constant problem.
Yeah I always say that is a problem for future O'Brien to deal with.
Then when I arrive at a stardate in the future where I am obligated to fix the cascading failures that my procrastination has caused I curse past O'Brien for being such a lazy shit.
Bakery pet rescue sounds like a recipe for hairy cookies.