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if at all = ?

While I'm reading The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain by Kenneth O. Morgan, a kind of odd phrase runs into me, which is as follows: 1. (page 286, Chapter 6 The stuarts) Towering above the Stuart...
14:18 Wed 11th Mar 200924 answers, last by Twenty20 20:56 Fri 27th Mar 2009
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to go Victorian on somebody

Irving Wallace is one of my favorite writers. Last year, I read The Three Sirens. To me, this is a good book, like the others written by him. I still can't, however hard I've tried to, grasp the exact...
07:11 Wed 04th Feb 20091 answer, last by Quizmonster 14:58 Wed 04th Feb 2009
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domine dirice nos?

Having recommended reading Helene Hanff's 84 Charing Cross Road, a friend of mine, a rare and used bookstore owner, said, to me, he used never to recommend any books to his customers. I bought the...
16:00 Wed 28th Mar 20071 answer, last by kempie 19:19 Wed 28th Mar 2007
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a hundred and one things

Jeffrey Archer, in his Shall We Tell the President? wrote: "He had already found a hundred and one things to do since he'd been back, …". I figure "a hundred and one things" here means many...
07:31 Wed 21st Mar 20072 answers, last by LeMarchand 13:01 Wed 21st Mar 2007
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have no nails left?

After having read Jeffrey Archer's The Prodigal Daughter, I find I can't grasp the actual meaning of the following phrases. I'd, therefore, appreciate it if you'd be kind enough to give a hand. 1....
07:48 Thu 15th Mar 20073 answers, last by chakka35 13:52 Thu 15th Mar 2007
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turn into a frog

I've read Jeffrey Archer's A Matter of Honour. It's, once more, a cute novel. There're three sentences I can't understand or ain't so sure. They're as follows: 1. "... You do not catch a poacher by...
08:51 Wed 03rd Jan 20073 answers, last by Steamcarrot 19:09 Wed 17th Jan 2007
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one's wine and linen, etc.

In Derek Wilson's Rothschild - A Story of Wealth and Power, there're a few sentences I can't comprehend, like 1. "... the prince made me a present of all his wine and his linen." pp32. his wine and...
06:46 Thu 21st Dec 20061 answer, last by Quizmonster 08:01 Thu 21st Dec 2006
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pegs and nails = ?

I’ve recently finished reading Derek Wilson’s Rothschild – A Story of Wealth and Power. In it, there’s a sentence I can’t take, that is “In 1712 the London...
12:14 Mon 18th Dec 20062 answers, last by heathfield 18:16 Thu 21st Dec 2006

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