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This tag is for questions related to definitions and nuances of meaning of a word or phrase.
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Living out of one another's pockets
Neither Anastasia Alexandrovna nor he felt that they could live another minute out of one another's pockets.
What does this mean? Does it mean they can't live without one another (because they ar …
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This year I actually was interviewed as Sigmund Freud
This is a letter which I received.
I keep coming back to Freud because I have always been interested in how people make sense of the past. This was Freud's great subject. I don't go to his work for a …
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What's the meaning of “astrung”?
What is the meaning of astrung? I’ve read it from this passage from Of Human Bondage:
She was terrified. …
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I wonder the meaning of 'come' particularly in this sentence
I wonder the meaning of the verb 'come' in this text. Please help me.:) …
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I have questions about the paragraph I can't understand
What is meaning of the 'of'?
Question 2.
Is it correct that 'and was able'? Was the 'was' omitted?
Thanks for reading. …
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To be worse than nothing
I can't understand the meaning of 'to be worse than nothing'.
I don't know how things are gonna worse than naught(zero). or is it possible? …
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a hundred to one
I heard of the expression 'a hundred to one'. and I am perplexed. because I heard of that the expression has both positive and negative meaning at the same time.
I can't understand it. … And moreover, as for its positive meaning I don't accept that one of hundred(1/100) has the meaning of 'certain, probable'. …
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bent upon exerting the fascination he knew was his only by the results
I read this in the novel 'Of Human Bondage' by Somerset Maugham.
It follows as below.
'Philip was even more than usually shy and abrupt; and whether on account of this, unconsciously bent upon exerti …
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floating dose behind the boat [closed]
In this, What's the meaning of 'dose'? In dictionary I have, It only is remarked as 'a measured amount of it which is intended to be taken at one time.' … With this meaning, I can't make sense of above sentence. please help me.:) …
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What is the popper's business?
What is the popper's business? I don't know what the popper is.
I heard somewhere the phrase. "He's in popper's business."
please let me know:)
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Meaning and Correctness of "to have masses said for someone's soul"
What is the meaning of "to have masses said for someone's soul"? I failed to find it in my dictionary. And grammatically, is it correct to say, "to have masses (which are) said for someone's soul"? …
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If I were not made a man of at once
I don't know what it's meaning is. 'a man of at once' means a man who can act boldly and quickly?
Please help me. …
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