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The idiom to have no truck with something/someone means, according to Cambridge: to refuse to become involved with something or someone because you do not approve of it, him, or her

There are differences in meaning between these three words. … The level of formality of a word has no connection to the word's meaning. …

From Merriam-Webster, in this sense it means: characterized by especially rugged and forceful physical activity

Merriam-Webster defines deliberate in this sense as "characterized by or resulting from careful and thorough consideration." Since not all decisions are made with careful and thorough consideration, n …

Australia is in the southern hemisphere; when it is fall in the northern hemisphere, it is spring in Australia, and vice versa. "Northern fall" means the time when it is fall in the northern hemispher …

That is the public switched telephone network (PSTN). As Wikipedia states: The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's telephone networks that are operated by nationa …

So let's look at the context in which those claims were made. Both are articles on Grammarly (1, 2) by Matt Ellis, someone with no particular expertise in English syntax whose advertised skills includ …

Per Etymonline: "Bank" as in the side of a river comes ultimately from the Proto-Germanic root *bankon, meaning "slope." … This root led to banca in Old Italian and banque in Old French, meaning "table"; the word came to be used in English to mean "money-dealer's counter or shop," from which the modern sense is derived. …

minister, had acquired influence as Pyotr Stolypin’s brother-in-law, and in his access to power, he had been pushed from below as well as pulled from above In the context of the above sentence, the usual meaning …

In the first example, "favorite" is modifying "new restaurant," so it refers to your favorite among the new restaurants. In the second example, "new" is modifying "favorite restaurant," so it refers t …

With reference to a business you have studied, assess the use of two strategies by this business as an effective strategy. I strongly suspect that this is a typo of some sort, or an extremely badly …

The word given is likely a more idiomatic choice: For a given cell c(i), c(i+1) and c(i-1) are its neighbours. OxfordLD defines it as "that you have stated and are discussing; particular."

Your question is: what does "straight" mean in this context? As Wiktionary explains, "straight" can mean: (slang) Thorough; utter; unqualified. It gives the example: ... they may even look like pim …

"Borders" in this sense just means "periphery" or "outer edges" (see The Free Dictionary). The idea is that theology is almost excluded from the universities, but not quite.

As Merriam-Webster notes, "some" can be used an adverb meaning "somewhat" or "to some degree or extent"; it can also serve as a mild intensifier. That is the sense being used here. …