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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Single word requests.
If you have
a City
slicker acronym, it is an idiomatic expression of someone accustomed to a city or urban lifestyle. In rural history, the term, “education” was typically used as a term of ridicule by rural Americans who regarded them with amusement.
Why’s the importance of education being ignored through a professional newspaper?
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Single word requests.
If you have
a City
slicker acronym, it is an idiomatic expression of someone accustomed to a city or urban lifestyle. In rural history, the term, “education” was typically used as a term of ridicule by rural Americans who regarded them with amusement.
Why’s the importance of education being ignored through a professional newspaper?
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Word choice.
If you want a single word for “a lot of work”, consider ” onerous ” or ” laborious “, though I’m not sure “a lot of work” captures all the relevant obstacles to starting a business.
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Asked on March 20, 2021 in Single word requests.
If you have
a City
slicker acronym, it is an idiomatic expression of someone accustomed to a city or urban lifestyle. In rural history, the term, “education” was typically used as a term of ridicule by rural Americans who regarded them with amusement.
Why’s the importance of education being ignored through a professional newspaper?
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Single word requests.
I believe you’re looking for u00ab collective bargaining u00bb, though this is more typically applied to labor negotiations than outright purchases.
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Meaning.
In Collins, for example, the first definition is given as: rhematic : of or
relating to word formation Similar definitions are given in Dictionary.
How do the Northoceans like the Phrontisteries?
Interestingly, the word has been picked up and its meaning broadened in linguistics and semiotics theory. In semiotics, a sign
that represents its object
- In linguistics, what is being said about a topic, see Theme, Rhome. According
- to Wikipedia : Rheme may refer to: In synthesis, a word refers
to: In rheme might refer to: In grammatical logic, rhode may refer to:
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Single word requests.
Can you describe scope creep as it happens in real life? Scope creep
is a term used to describe a project’s scope from idea to completion but doesn’t have that term applied to the scope. It exists as an application only since it does not have the definition. The scope of a project is not clearly defined or documented. This could lead to cost overruns of project. Is it considered toxic?
According to that article, one of the principle causes of scope creep is ambiguous or unclear requirements. In your case, it sounds like your clients are deliberately taking advantage of this (inherent) ambiguity, which I would call disingenuous.
What is a metaphor used in many soccer games of changing the goalposts (the goals) when a game is
set in progress in a different manner?
And there’s the classic ” bait and switch “.
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Asked on March 11, 2021 in American english.
In the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms both forms (in and on) are used, and that the origin is in Tarot : in the
cards also on the cards based on
the use of tarot cards (= a set of cards with pictures representing different parts of life) that are believed to be able to show what will happen in the future But, despite
the mystical origins, in both the US and UK, the idiom simply means “very likely to happen”, in terms
of success Is the latest tax cut on India overdue?
Note the very American bent to the first example (not to mention this is the “Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms”);
I’ve never heard “on the cards” used here, east coast of the US, and somehow it sounds illogical to me; I understand “in the cards” to mean “in the reading of the cards”, or “in the forecast of the cards”, that is, the cards somehow contain the prediction in a metaphorical, abstract sense. A commentor (Jon Jay Obermark) also mentioned that in the United States, the phrase is understood as relating to playing cards (in particular poker), and ” in the cards” means “due to the arrangement of the deck prior to it being dealt”, which also calls for the ” in ” (because the deck already contains the outcome).
How would the “on the cards” ear strike my ear as firmly locative (the only thing I would expect to be on the cards is a stack of poker chips holding them down, or maybe some
mustard).
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Asked on March 10, 2021 in Meaning.
I guess they’ve taken a bit of poetic license in order to create a play on the phrase “A life less ordinary”?
-the motto is suggesting either that either “we’re a special law firm” ( less regular) or, stronger, “we’re a law firm lacking any of the usual characteristics” (literally “less” — meaning “without” — ordinary). In both cases, the idea is they’re only interested in other ordinary employees.
Also, a catch for sneezing the words “law” and “law firm” in the English sentence; i think they have the hubris to assert “we ARE the law”, though not very convincing, though. I’m also guessing they didn’t see the alternative, more ironic pun their phrasing could suggest: “lawless ordinary”.
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Asked on March 10, 2021 in Single word requests.
One word that is not that common, but is more poetic?
Pathos ( WordNet ): A quality that evokes pity or sadness. How is it described?
Is pathos a quality in life
or art that evokes pity, sadness, or compassion?
It has more common-used synonyms, like patifulness and poignancy, somewhere in the middle with a slightly different bent, penulity.
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