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What is the difference between ‘Take to Court’ and ‘Take Someone to Court’?
Players made a statement in New York a day after racist remarks made by Donald Sterling. The players have since …
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Yoichi Oishi Asked on March 9, 2021 in Meaning.
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What is the difference between following and on the basis of?
Are exchangeable on the basis and ‘based on’? Session 2:For example, could I speak this sentence His article was written …
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Shudong Asked on March 9, 2021 in Phrases.
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Will feeling for rejection be followed by acceptance?
Is there a good word so that you feel scorn for yourself when you’ve been rejected? I remember a phrase …
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Robin Thuran Malhotra Asked on March 9, 2021 in Phrases.
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A word to define a person declared guilty by society but found not guilty in a court of law. A word or phrase to define a person declared guilty by society but found not guilty in law.
Is there a phrase or word to define an individual who is declared guilty by a large section of society …
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SM24 Asked on March 9, 2021 in Single word requests.
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He didn’t thank me or both?
How do you tell if someone didn’t ‘thank you’ or’he didn’t to thank you? Which is correct and the other …
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milka Asked on March 9, 2021 in Phrases.
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Usage of ‘bovinely’ when fastness or slowness are involved.
I know that in English ‘I tried to go as slow as possible’ and ‘I tried to go as fast …
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Elberich Schneider Asked on March 8, 2021 in Phrases.
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What is the English equivalent of – a motto that you always keep by the side?
I was interested in a word, ” refrigerator magnet maxim,” which I recently found in an article of some newspaper …
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Yoichi Oishi Asked on March 8, 2021 in Phrases.
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What does this mean when you actually say “I dig your auntie” and the way they say that, yes you need to shut with her, and then close again?
My baby girl has a tiny t-shirt with the saying “I love my auntie” on it. How can I tell …
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Maksym Polshcha Asked on March 8, 2021 in Meaning.
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Does “the fact that X” imply “X is a fact”?
How can I know if my professor is really a good one? Is it true that some people only understand …
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Omega Asked on March 8, 2021 in Meaning.
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What does “pay you out” mean?
I followed the following passage of text in one of the original Thomas the Tank Engine stories, and realised there …
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Urbycoz Asked on March 7, 2021 in Meaning.
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STOP!