Winged WordsHamilton, 1988 - 292 pagini |
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Pagina 37
... look impressive , but are lightweight and no good if you are hungry . Weasel words look impressive , but are empty and meaningless when you examine them closely . The colloquial political verb ' to weasel ' , to equivocate , to evade ...
... look impressive , but are lightweight and no good if you are hungry . Weasel words look impressive , but are empty and meaningless when you examine them closely . The colloquial political verb ' to weasel ' , to equivocate , to evade ...
Pagina 156
... look at collision , to see whether they should give it a warning label in the next edition . I do not think that they need to bother too much . There is no implication in the prefix col- that both objects have to be moving when they ...
... look at collision , to see whether they should give it a warning label in the next edition . I do not think that they need to bother too much . There is no implication in the prefix col- that both objects have to be moving when they ...
Pagina 245
... look for work ; and in many cases the only ' work ' available is in the sex industry . Defiantly , they call themselves Thatcher's girls . Another name for the same phenomenon is ' have it away day ' , in jocular reference to the day ...
... look for work ; and in many cases the only ' work ' available is in the sex industry . Defiantly , they call themselves Thatcher's girls . Another name for the same phenomenon is ' have it away day ' , in jocular reference to the day ...
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academic acronym adjective adverb American auto-antonyms band-wagon become better Bible bird British English Brownie called century classics cliché coined collision common cowboy describe Dictionary editor English language eponymous etymology example fashionable free lunch French fudge grammar gravy train Greek hope hopefully hype idiolect idiom Indian English ivory tower jargon journalists journos lady Latin linguistic living look Lord marbles mean metaphor modern Naafi naff never nice noun origin Oxford Oxford English Dictionary paradox Pathetic Fallacy person Phil Mahre phrase political politicians popular prodigal pronounced pronunciation quotation quotes Received Pronunciation recent refer reflexive reflexive pronouns rubbish sengreen sense sentence silly slang social sounds spelling Teddy television term Thatcher thing tion Tommy Handley translation twerp unicorn United Kingdom usage verb vocabulary vogue wally weasel word White Knight woman write wrong wrote
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