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How can I improve my translation of Beowulf's first few lines?
Awarded Jul 31 at 14:31
Which is correct — "I told you" or "I said you"?
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Is “Better never than late” the saying as popular as “Better late than never”?
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What is a word for an officious person who tells the ending of movie and mystery story, and spoils your interest?
Awarded Dec 2, 2022 at 10:06
What is another word for allowing [a professional] to take some sort of [privileges, leniencies, risks, allowances, decision making]?
Awarded Nov 29, 2022 at 15:57
What is a word equivalent to 'oceanic' but specific to a lake?
Awarded Nov 21, 2022 at 8:19
What is "gallows flesh?"
Awarded Oct 22, 2022 at 20:26
Is there such a thing as a "positive" antonym to catastrophe?
Awarded Oct 1, 2022 at 21:57
What is the grammar behind "Thanks be to God"?
Awarded Sep 29, 2022 at 0:45
Is "Hopefully, my ship…" frowned upon?
Awarded Aug 13, 2022 at 19:27
How derogatory is “chicks” when used to refer to women?
Awarded Aug 8, 2022 at 11:22
Why is the subject omitted in sentences like "Thought you'd never ask"?
Awarded Aug 3, 2022 at 21:16
Word meaning to take away the sophistication of something
Awarded Jul 11, 2022 at 9:42
Does sympathy necessarily mean pity?
Awarded Jul 4, 2022 at 5:50
"Tone" vs. "shade"
Awarded May 17, 2022 at 16:36
"Query" vs. "Inquiry"
Awarded Dec 11, 2021 at 5:21
"Represented by" vs. "represented with"
Awarded Oct 3, 2021 at 7:06
"Restrict" versus "constrict"
Awarded Sep 19, 2021 at 9:10
What's the better preposition to use with "love" -- "love for" or "love of"?
Awarded Jul 26, 2021 at 17:20
“Solution to” vs. “solution of ”
Awarded May 24, 2021 at 19:57
What does "worm of yellow convicts" mean?
Awarded Nov 12, 2020 at 8:41
What is English counterpart to Japanese phrase, “往生際が悪い” – behave disgracefully toward the end of life?
Awarded Nov 10, 2020 at 18:53
How is "officially" used in a non-literal way?
Awarded Oct 18, 2020 at 16:25
What does "cramp one's style" mean?
Awarded Oct 5, 2020 at 19:55
Should I write "module/theme" or "module / theme"?
Awarded Oct 2, 2020 at 20:01
Which is higher — "hyper-", "ultra-" or "super-"?
Awarded Sep 5, 2020 at 12:18
Why are black people referred to as "colored people"?
Awarded Jul 6, 2020 at 12:45
"To shoot out of cannon into sparrows"
Awarded Jun 12, 2020 at 22:32
What's the meaning of 'sheer' in this context?
Awarded Apr 23, 2020 at 18:12
Is it appropriate to use 'eagerly' while ending a formal e-mail
Awarded Apr 5, 2020 at 8:55
How is the name of the town Hingham, Massachusetts, pronounced?
Awarded Apr 5, 2020 at 6:20
What's an idiom to express the idea "the correcter stands corrected"
Awarded Mar 20, 2020 at 22:20
Whoever gets there first reaps the most benefits - word for this?
Awarded Feb 13, 2020 at 12:25
Is there a word for someone that gets constantly deceived and never learns? ex. Charlie Brown always falling for Lucy's "pull away the football" gag?
Awarded Feb 7, 2020 at 15:05
Word to describe a company that pretends to do the right thing?
Awarded Dec 16, 2019 at 19:10
Correct usage of "in that"
Awarded Dec 3, 2019 at 16:20
What does "what's the catch" mean?
Awarded Oct 15, 2019 at 15:45
What is an idiom, phrase or expression for situation such as "throw a pigeon among cats"
Awarded Oct 14, 2019 at 17:05
What is a gender neutral equivalent for the following phrase?
Awarded Oct 8, 2019 at 15:05
"Do my best" vs. "my level best"
Awarded Sep 23, 2019 at 16:50
Antonym of "Megalomania"
Awarded Jul 31, 2019 at 9:20
What is the English equivalent of 干物女 (dried fish woman)?
Awarded Jul 14, 2019 at 19:10
"On their back" or "on their backs"?
Awarded Jun 23, 2019 at 12:00
Someone who is granted access to information but not expected to read it
Awarded Jun 12, 2019 at 17:55
What does it mean when someone says "noted" to you?
Awarded May 23, 2019 at 18:20
Is the expression "may or may not" semantically void?
Awarded May 7, 2019 at 13:50
What is the word for a plant covered in fine white hairs?
Awarded Feb 22, 2019 at 17:25
What is a stronger alternative to "avoid"?
Awarded Feb 7, 2019 at 18:05
"As of late" or "as of lately"?
Awarded Feb 5, 2019 at 18:50
Why is a transportation by road called a "Shipment" but a transportation by seaways called "Cargo"?
Awarded Jan 28, 2019 at 23:10
Is there a word to describe someone who wakes up in predawn?
Awarded Dec 19, 2018 at 1:10
"Can I bum a cigarette?" - "I’m an athlete"
Awarded Nov 17, 2018 at 19:45
Is there a synonym for the phrase "card up his sleeve"?
Awarded Nov 13, 2018 at 17:15
Name for rhetorical technique of abandoning commas in a long list?
Awarded Nov 7, 2018 at 23:30
What has this tree done, with respect to the fence (picture)?
Awarded Oct 31, 2018 at 0:20
Alternative to "skin in the game"
Awarded Oct 15, 2018 at 16:20
Fake job given as appeasement?
Awarded Oct 14, 2018 at 9:50
Scottish, English, why not *Walish?
Awarded Oct 9, 2018 at 20:20
"Tit for tat"—Where does this come from?
Awarded Sep 4, 2018 at 16:25
What does the idiom “funny as hell” mean?
Awarded Aug 28, 2018 at 7:50
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