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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.
Now that you see it, that is indeed an English phrase. Do you’d rather say “I can feel it in my bones”, which means “My intuition is telling me so.” ”
“Sometimes, the words are ” “No matter what.” And some people get so frustrated by the phrase “No matter what”
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.
Now that you see it, that is indeed an English phrase. Do you’d rather say “I can feel it in my bones”, which means “My intuition is telling me so.” ”
“Sometimes, the words are ” “No matter what.” And some people get so frustrated by the phrase “No matter what”
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Asked on March 16, 2021 in Word choice.
If “rod” is the only word I could look for in my typing. What makes the word “rod”? Albeit, I have never heard this before.
roil
to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of
-Merriam Webster
Webster.
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Meaning.
What are some rhetorical questions like “Who knows?”?
Does the current usage of skip question marks on questions about politics reflect the general discussion on rhetoric issues? Is this not an invasion of privacy? I would recommend using a question mark as a rhetorical question. Unfortunately no one knows how to use a question mark for a rhetorical question. In my opinion, rhetorical questions without question marks throw me off — John Grisham has a habit of doing this and it causes me to read these sentences in a weird, sarcastic
tone. See more information from Wikipedia.
Where are the two exclamation marks for rhetorical questions?
What is the use of ?
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Asked on March 11, 2021 in American english.
A common phrase is “Don’t lie your way out of this one” or “You can’t just think your way out of this one”, which mean “Don’t lie in order to resolve this situation” and “Just thinking won’t resolve this situation” respectively.
Am I the only one who verbifies? Did you mean “act in such a way that Lance Armstrong would act” on the English side? Does he have the right reasons for denying performance enhancing drugs or what could be the best strategy to stop him, given he
was able to use a “good” drug?
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