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Detail as a noun refers to a specific task that someone is (temporarily) assigned. To be on detail means to be temporarily assigned to do a task that is different from one's regular assignment. Simila …

: A no-nonsense guide to easily confused words by Philip Gooden: CONGENIAL or GENIAL There's more than a shade of meaning between these two words and the careful user will pick the right one for the …

Collins Dictionary has: : Obsolete a short sword hung from the belt and a light saber of the 17th and 18th centuries, often worn by sailors From the Wikipedia article for cutlass: In England abou …

OED defines discipline as a subcategory or element of a particular subject or field (also mentioned in DjinTonic's answer). So the examples in the image you have posted are each a subcategory of a bro …

[...] should it loathe him first This is an example of should with inversion. This is semantically equal to, "[...] if it (read: the world) should loathe him first. I believe this implies that, be …

It's not an (established) idiomatic phrase, but a metaphorical one. [...] holding the cup at the other end of the string. Literally, it refers to two people talking to each other using only two cups …

It's an idiom (old-fashioned): Go to the devil in British English : b. (interjection) used to express annoyance with the person causing it (Collins Dictionary) Compare the structure of the phrase wi …

Looking up "say exclamation/interjection" on Google, we see that it is definitely American: say exclamation (North American English, informal) ​used for showing surprise or pleasure Say, that's a ni …

From a letter from Charles Darwin to J.D Hooker in 1874 (Source): It is, if you ever attend the Balloting meetings of Athenæum Club, to attend the first one early in February & vote for my nephew, He …

As requested by OP in comments to post this comment as an answer - As it stands, the sentence is completely ambiguous. Without knowing the historical facts, there is absolutely no way to tell wh …

Here's something I found in Google books that might help - (An APEC Trade Agenda?: The Political Economy of a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific) Implementing this will definitely require …

Here's what you might want - Dogma : a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. "The dogmas of faith" (From Oxford)

Here's something that might help - Labour under [something] : [labour under something] to exist or try to live in a situation where there are serious difficulties or problems. Example sentence - "M …

"I did" is the "simple past" form. We use the simple past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past. Here is a good example - Sarah says, "I was doin …

Nuance : a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound. Source: https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/nuance The definition of "nuance" is a subtle difference. …