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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.
You can say she has a finger in her hand, the second sentence is invalid syntax the third sounds wrong to me.
If she was holding on to her mother’s index finger, it would mean she was sort of be led by that person while grasping that person’s finger.
I would hold onto my suitcase when I was scared someone would steal it from me.
Which is better, grasping her finger or groping her fingers
(binge or thumb) sounds better in my opinion and it’s in real life.
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.
You can say she has a finger in her hand, the second sentence is invalid syntax the third sounds wrong to me.
If she was holding on to her mother’s index finger, it would mean she was sort of be led by that person while grasping that person’s finger.
I would hold onto my suitcase when I was scared someone would steal it from me.
Which is better, grasping her finger or groping her fingers
(binge or thumb) sounds better in my opinion and it’s in real life.
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Asked on March 14, 2021 in Meaning.
http://dictionary.reference. com/browse/get18:
to successful, become enabled, or be permitted: You get to meet a lot of interesting people.- 920809 views
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Asked on March 14, 2021 in Meaning.
http://dictionary.reference. com/browse/get18:
to successful, become enabled, or be permitted: You get to meet a lot of interesting people.- 920809 views
- 6 answers
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Word choice.
complimentary : free on the house
complement: for going with something. Togo with something. : to go with something. : for no additional charge.
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php? Google:
search=snob&searchmode=none (in Arabic) snob 1781, “a shoemaker, a shoemaker’s apprentice,” of unknown origin. It came to be used in Cambridge University slang C. 1796 for “townsman, local merchant” and by 1831 it was being used for “person of the ordinary or lower class. Meaning “person who vulgarly apes his social superiors” arose 1843, popularized 1848 by William Thackeray’s “Book of Snobs.” What is the modern sense of “one who despises those considered inferior in rank, attainment, or taste”? https://www.oxforddictionaries.org/
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addition, people often claim that this word originated as an abbreviated form of the Latin phrase sine nobilitate, meaning ‘without nobility’ (i.e., without a high society) while others insist similar forms are used in other Latin languages. A humble social background (a national record, a statement) could also be taken as an admission by the court. Various accounts of the circumstances in which this abbreviation was supposedly used have been put forward: in lists of names of Oxford or Cambridge students; on lists of ships’ passengers (to make sure that only the best people dined at the captain’s table); on lists of guests to indicate that no title was required when they were announced.
Is the theory ingenious or highly unlikely? What is the significance of the word snob as used in the textile industry in the late 18th century? At about this time it was indeed adopted by Cambridge students, but they didn’t use it to refer to students who lacked a title or were of humble origins; they used it generally of anyone who wasn’t a student.
By the early 19th century snob was being used to mean a person with no ‘breeding’, both the honest labourers who knew their place, and the vulgar social climbers who copied the manners of the upper classes. The word came to describe someone who has an exaggerated respect for some privileged or well-off people. In time the word came to describe someone who looks down on those regarded as socially inferior.
It’s quite possible that the phrase Sansi nobilitate may have appeared in one context or another, but it is difficult to see why it would have given rise to a word for a shoemaker.
Some of google books from 18th century seems to OCR the word such as snob making the NGRAM viewer give false positives Interesting
link to a book from 1840 – http://www.google.com/books/?
id=Em0qAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22snob%22&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q=%22snob%22&f=false&n=id
= false, f=false and +/- = empty. &f=pg/PA73#f=P q/1001 &n=. d=+/ + & -_*. f=
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Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.
Is there an official Monty Python movie?
The
Rabbit of Caerbannog can be killed by the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
What is the best way to get more out of a relationship?
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Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.
In a, likely newpaper slug,
“Mr. Rogers,” in the headline, “Mr. Rogers, Mr. President”. Bob Timms, 3rd District Council member, is retiring.
Did something wrong with the article in the definite statement?
Bob Timms, (THE)
leader of the Democratic Party, (THE) MP for Threeoaks, has announced his resignation.
has only one local candidate, the leader of Threeoaks. Who is to be elected?
If applied to the Lennon sentence, it could be :
John Lennon, (the) famous Beatle was born in Liverpool.
(With or without the indefinite article,
a,
it would be Johnlennon, English singer and musician, was born in Liverpool.) The indefinite article has become available in the English media to all media. (With or without the indefinite article), as it had been said in The Guardian article, a..
To read idiomatically – at least the would be necessary That
said, in newspaper headlines you can do whatever you want as long as it stays understandable.
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Writing Style.
I would write first time Virtual Private Network is… And then use VPNs in the rest of the text. I
like having VPNs as a client.
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Meaning.
What is the use of forget oneself in english? What are some examples?
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August 28, Vincent Hogan, “‘Where Rovers go from here could be thrilling or terrifying'”, Irish Independent: I see, the easy thing would be for Rovers to forget themselves.
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To be exact, I know I wont forget you but I’ll forget myself if the city will forgive me. To become unmindful of one’s own personality; to lose in thought.
Google book search gives us some examples
Get out of this house before I forget myself and slap your face
I want you to leave now before I forget myself and throw you bodily into the street.
Now clear out before I forget myself, and tell the Copper we’re working for that we’ll tear him in half if he interferes with us.
For that purpose I should avoid the copper but at the same time give it a good time. I don’t love or hate myself.
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