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Phrases & Sayings
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What exactly does this saying mean?
Can anyone help my daughter?
She needs to know what kind of word 'that' is in the following sentence:
"the ceiling was supported, like that of a barn"...
Suffice to say or Suffice it to say? Does it matter? Fowler is silent on this but I expect ABers won't be.
41] its a sight wearing glasses 3.9.
45]is this servant blushing 4.7.
47]polished coins 9. 5.
all are moths thanks in advance...
Why do the Australian rugby team sleep two to a bedroom?
Because when one chokes, the other can practice the Heimlich manoeuvre....
Many of us on AB recently learnt that IDOLA means 'logical fallacies'- but can anyone give an example of a 'logical fallacy' ?
what does if life deals you lemons, make lemonade mean????
any ideas people. Many thanks
1 Gigle caponn to a hair. ( 2 Words) 2 modern hands ages (3) 3 oo candy dann lusts (3) 4 silenet demitenop puscatheum (4) 5 cent lathe (2) 6 hand trax manc ege (3) Thank you for any help....
A commonly seen road sign says "Road liable to flooding" and it irritates me! I think it should be "liable to flood" or "prone to flooding". What do others think? Am I...
Slow & Steady does what ?
(Sorry no clues)...
Francs were just F, the deutschmark was DM, so why arent the pound P and the dollar D??
Today I found myself referring to a 'pop video'. Yet the video format is now positively historic. What is the current correct phrase for a film that promotes a song...if even that is a correct...
Can anybody translate "Nulla proportio tanto ardentius"? It is frescoed on a wall in the Palazzo Grimani in Venice. I have tried the Google translate service, but it did not really help....
It was on a monument in Malta and I would love to know what it means :
Magnae et Invictaf Britanniae Melitensium amor et Europaevox has Insulas Confirmat
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Thank you!!
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i'm ashamed to say I was a bit stumped helping my daughter with her English homework last night. Sh had to use the given connective words to make sentences more interesting. 'it is raining very hard....
Have just used the phrase 'running round like a blue *rsed fly and it got me wondering - is there such a thing? And if so does it run round?
When I was young a much used saying to any person acting about was if youdo not behave I will give you such a doughboy meaning I will hit you has any other person heard this and if so where the saying...
Hi, is there such a word as above, and what is its derivation.
Thx
Tony...
What does a right bag of mashings mean?
