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Meaning of “I'm a disaster” [closed]
What does disaster mean in the following sentence?
I'm a disaster.
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What is the meaning of “gather way” in “The idea gathered way”?
As far as I know "gather way" means "to attain headway" in navigation. So I believe this is a kind of idiom or something like that.
I just found this sentence with no context, so I don't know if you ...
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Meaning of “Blunt instrument” [closed]
I am having difficulties trying to understand this sentence:
In some respects, Courses of Action are the more basic of the two. In
and of themselves, however, Courses of Action tend to be rather ...
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“A […] of riches” — what word is missing?
There is a phrase that goes "a X of riches" which suggests that one had so much to choose from, lots of good choices. What is the missing word?
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How come “John is friends with Jane”?
The usage in the question title seems common enough to me, though it may be more common in Britain.
But I can't exactly see what "part of speech" the word friends is here, and I can't come up with ...
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Chicks - Girls, Cats - Boys?
The 1950's song Fever (covered, among others, by Elvis Presley) contains the following lines:
Now you've listened to my story
Here's the point that I have made
Cats were born to give chicks ...
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Does “anything man” exist?
Is anything man a word (noun)?
Is there a synonym or a better word?
Context (my emphasis):
After college he was working for Fawcette Technical Publications (as anything man - design, editing, ...
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What are a stag's comrades called?
Before a man gets married he is referred to as the 'stag'; what are his comrades called?
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What does it mean to be “in suspense”?
What does it actually mean to be "in suspense"? It's not a place, or a verb. How would you define "suspense"?
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What is the origin of the phrase “you've got another thing/think coming”?
What is the origin of the phrase "you've got another thing coming"? And — perhaps more importantly — is it more correct than the alternative "you've got another think coming"?
