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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 23:30
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What do you call a person who is utterly independent and a loner?
Jan 31 '17 at 19:49
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What does “I don't suffer from insanity” mean?
Sep 5 '15 at 16:21
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Is there an adjective for “untruthful, especially when pretending to know more than one actually does”?
May 9 '16 at 21:46
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What is a term for a server that is functioning 24/7?
May 15 '17 at 6:09
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Is there a word/ phrase to describe somebody who has devoted their life to practising something but is still not very good at it?
Oct 11 '17 at 16:36
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Why is “our today's meeting” wrong?
Jun 11 '15 at 12:46
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Looking for a noun, a person who changed their past view to a new one
Dec 16 '20 at 18:35
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What's a word for making a weapon inoperable for public display?
Feb 26 '16 at 14:46
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Word or phrase for tasking an expert with jobs that a novice could do
Oct 9 '15 at 21:23
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Reflexive pronouns to affect false intellectual tone
Jul 7 '16 at 21:20
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Is this sentence properly written
Jan 9 '18 at 14:14
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What is a word for a person who constantly speaks negatively?
Jan 8 '16 at 6:15
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Is there a word/ phrase to describe somebody who has devoted their life to practising something but is still not very good at it?
Oct 10 '17 at 22:58
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Is there a word or an idiom for people who only spend their families' money and fool around?
Apr 29 '15 at 14:14
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What is a word for not seeing obvious “warning signs”?
Feb 2 '17 at 0:04
3
Is an infant child long or tall?
Oct 14 '17 at 23:23
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How to describe a person who has done well in every task except one, but he has done extremely bad in that 'one' task
Oct 9 '15 at 21:05
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election
Sep 12 '15 at 18:32
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Is it OK to say “The situation is pregnant with a crisis”?
Jun 29 '19 at 20:53
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Is there any suitable word for describing the highest point of a difficult situation?
Dec 29 '17 at 21:15
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The meaning of “along with”
Feb 17 '17 at 21:43
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Neither …or/and…, nor …or/and…
Feb 17 '17 at 20:29
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Word which encompasses both “logs” and “notes”
Jul 15 '16 at 13:23
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Term for a person with absolutely zero knowledge of a topic
Jul 30 '15 at 13:01
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What preposition is the proper one to follow the noun “hatred”?
Aug 31 '14 at 23:28
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What semantic notions underlie 'offset' and 'counterbalance'?
Mar 22 '18 at 12:12
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Meaning of “easy” in “easy on the eye/ear”
Jan 19 '18 at 5:30
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What is the correct way to punctuate a sentence that augments the previous thought using a phrase like “you know” or “that is”?
Nov 7 '16 at 4:04
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One word for “bringing someone up to speed”
Oct 2 '15 at 12:38
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