David

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Is there an idiom for "winning a contest because you were the only participant"?

May 25, 2017

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What is the sound/audio equivalent of "unsightly"?

Aug 27, 2019

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What would a British person call the biscuits that Americans put gravy on?

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Term for Gift that Turns out to be a Burden

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Is it OK to say "The situation is pregnant with a crisis"?

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Divergence of usage of Present Perfect tense in English from that of other European languages

Aug 26, 2016

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Lavatory — US terms used in the 1950s

Nov 14, 2018

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Expression to describe self-inflicted fall from a position of strength

Jun 24, 2016

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Journalistic term for front-page promotional strip

Aug 1, 2016

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Adjective to describe artistic text written by an adult in a deliberately childish style

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How would I hyphenate the phrase "quaternary ammonium compound based?"?

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Is there a word for someone who believes things will always work out in their favour?

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What is the word for absence of something?

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Not sure if "combined 90 men’s years experience" is right usage as opposed to "combined 90 man years worth of experience"

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