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What is this method of joking about a morbid situation called?
Mar 24 '16 at 1:27
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What do you call a person who keeps talking about art; studies art, criticizes art, and thinks he'd be amazing with it. But he doesn't practice it
Aug 23 '16 at 2:02
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Washing the skin of a dead rat
Oct 30 '19 at 0:52
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What is it called when experts think they only know a small part of a topic and amateurs think they know almost all of a topic?
Apr 20 '17 at 17:29
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What do you call it when your unit does physical exercise as punishment because one soldier did something wrong?
Dec 12 '18 at 22:52
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An adjective for “censorship” when it is really strong
Oct 26 '18 at 16:15
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Treacle is viscous; alcohol is ____?
Dec 30 '14 at 15:01
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Word for “Significant enough to make a difference”
Jan 1 '19 at 20:56
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Phrase for a situation where a problem disappears when you are about to fix it, but reappears later
Aug 3 '15 at 21:27
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Is there a common saying in English that means “It's just business, I don't feel any shame”
May 6 '18 at 12:50
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Chasing something that doesn't exist
May 24 '16 at 0:05
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When is the phrase, “Are you sitting down?” used, and what does it exactly mean?
Dec 5 '16 at 1:47
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The term for the negative equivalent of a peak point on a graph
Sep 17 '15 at 17:58
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What do we call a doctor's prediction
Feb 5 '15 at 18:39
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Is there a word for “to be physically removed from” a public place, involuntarily?
Dec 1 '16 at 16:29
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Term for “professional” who doesn't make their living from that kind of work
Oct 6 '16 at 16:44
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Is there an English idiom that means “you can always find a law to convict anyone”?
Mar 27 '15 at 16:20
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Stronger word for “selfish”
Mar 9 '15 at 15:54
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“Country” is to “national” as “city” is to…
Nov 22 '15 at 19:28
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What do you call something that makes you feel empty?
Feb 21 '18 at 0:08
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Word for that certain fear, worrying you might involuntarily jump from a cliff?
Jul 4 '15 at 17:23
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Is there an English word for a woman who has recently given birth?
Dec 2 '14 at 21:22
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What is a word that means unforgettable but with a negative connotation?
Nov 17 '14 at 23:08
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Opposite of “trendy” without a negative meaning
Dec 22 '14 at 15:15
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What's the sound of wolf's footsteps called?
Sep 25 '19 at 0:16
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I'm looking for a word meaning “hard to pronounce”
Jan 4 '17 at 23:33
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What is a word which encapsulates the meaning of both the words 'widow' and 'female divorcee' in one?
Mar 22 '18 at 23:50
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Is there a phrase for the re-establishment of friendship with someone?
Nov 28 '16 at 15:04
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What are “desires of the flesh”?
Oct 14 '16 at 1:30
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Word for a person who freely shares others' secrets
May 11 '16 at 1:11
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