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Why should “be” come after “neither a borrower nor lender,” not before them?
I came across the maxim, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” in the following sentence of Jeffery Archer’s fiction, “The Fourth Estate” (P.54), and found that the maxim came from Lord Polonius’ ...
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Swapping the order in an idiomatic expression [closed]
I may have sounded general in the title but my question is very specific. Recently I was writing a poem and I needed it to rhyme this way
Some will stand to watch you go down quick
But no one ...
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Placement of “off the beaten track” in context
I know that "off the beaten track" means "unusual". Can it be used before a noun and after a verb?
For example,
an off the beaten track place
This holiday is off the beaten track.
Is it ...
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Put your shoes on and Take your coat off [closed]
I have often heard the following statements when someone talks about shoes, cloths, etc. I don't know which one is more appropriate or grammatically correct.
Hey, put your shoes on.
Hey, put ...
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Having or eating one's cake
Which is it?
"You cannot eat your cake and have it, too," meaning you can have it or you can eat it, but once it's gone there's no cake left to eat.
"You cannot have your cake and eat it, too", ...
