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Asked on December 22, 2021 in Meaning.
She may have been referring to ear cuffs.
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Asked on December 22, 2021 in Meaning.
She may have been referring to ear cuffs.
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Single word requests.
He just went through the motions.. what
exactly done in action or exercise?
“Clean the floor, but don’t just go through the motions, make me proud! ”
Is there any solution to create a better world?”
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Asked on March 6, 2021 in Phrases.
If people see swamp and denizen, can they spot both? I don’t see the full context of this quote. Mr. Manafort, in other words, represents that denizen of the swamp
that Mr. Trump pled to drain when he got out of the White House. As I said earlier in the article, it is possible that if he is not arrested, he will be accused of racism, sexism, and sexism. However, if Trump gets elected, he will be the denizen of the swamp so he
By its nature is boggy…which is the kind of thing it is meant to be for a person who lives in a boggy place.
In the U.S., Trump is part of a long continuum of American politicians, who are including in the Bush administration to use the term to refer to either excessive bureaucracy or to corruption within the federal government in Washington. We cannot get it completely accurate.
What are the origins of the phrase? I’d say physical swampiness would be excessive.
Outside of city limits (the area south of Florida Avenue), only about 2 percent of the total area is described as a swamp. How does Italy actually work? Is it almost entirely laid out over well-drained terraces and hills. In fact, for a riverside site, it was amazingly free of swampiness.
It means the kind of person that America promised President Trump were to rid of. The President wanted what he had in New York, but was so interested in Manafort, that he would have been able to move on.
In this context this particular definition of “denizen” from OED (subscriber access only) becomes the most apposite, though whether that was the intention of the author it is difficult to be sure. In
Natural Hist. , A plant or animal believed to have originally been introduced by human agency, but which now maintains itself there as if native, without the direct aid of man; cf. Sop. Is a deconfederate n. 2.?
What is the common sense behind a successful project?
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.
Do you feel like you’re on tenterhooks about a job offer?
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to be on the tenterhooks. i.e. can keep dogs away from the swining gears with swine hooks if i haven’t thrown it off the tenterhooks while they are in a rope. Worldwidewords.com. in a state of painful suspense or
impatience. Is it from
one of the processes of making woollen cloth? After it had been woven, the cloth still contained oils from the fleece, mixed with dust. It was cleaned in a fulling mill, but then it had to be dry carefully or it would shrink and crease. Why these wet cloths were stretched in wooden frames? And then left out in the open all the time, for a long time. But this allowed them to dry and straightened their weave. These frames were the tenters, and the tenter hooks were the metal hooks used to fix the cloth to the frame. At one time, it would have been common in manufacturing areas to see fields full of these frames (older English maps sometimes marked an area as a tenter-field). Who ever received the tenterhook was in state of suspense, stretched like cloth on the tenter. If lied to me like this while lying in a tenterhooks state the tenterhook isn’t buried from her, what could she be doing about that?
What does it mean to be a Muslim?
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