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"Rollbacked" or "rolled back" the edit? And what about "double-click"?
Awarded 2 days ago
"Knocking it out of the park" sports metaphor American English vs British English?
Awarded Aug 25 at 6:50
Are "lie low" and "keep a low profile" interchangeable?
Awarded Aug 21 at 16:17
She's a black belt in judo
Awarded Aug 12 at 17:10
English equivalent to the famous Hindi proverb "the marriage sweetmeat: those who eat it regret, and those who don't eat it also regret"?
Awarded Aug 10 at 0:54
"Seagulls are gulling away."
Awarded Aug 9 at 14:40
What does "off-book" mean in "Cue cards? I’m showing up off-book"?
Awarded Aug 8 at 16:08
Can "the" mean "enough"? — E.g.: "She will bake a pie, if she has the ingredients."
Awarded Aug 6 at 15:41
Structure of the headline "Olympics organizers scramble as furor over woke blasphemy grows."
Awarded Aug 1 at 20:21
"Man cannot live by bread alone." — Is there any logical explanation why this idiom doesn't have an article before "man"?
Awarded Aug 1 at 15:20
Can I say "Rolex watches are astronomical", "astronomical" in the sense of "expensive"?
Awarded Aug 1 at 3:33
Is "natural person" an idiomatic way to describe someone who's the opposite of pretentious?
Awarded Jul 26 at 20:49
Is "natural person" an idiomatic way to describe someone who's the opposite of pretentious?
Awarded Jul 26 at 19:36
Why does "They be naked" use the base form of "be"?
Awarded Jul 19 at 18:05
What is the difference between "Donald Trump just got shot at!" and "Donald Trump just got shot!"?
Awarded Jul 17 at 8:51
What is the meaning of "taking in each other's washing"
Awarded Jul 10 at 3:21
Sitting on a desk or at a desk? What's the difference?
Awarded Jul 1 at 17:25
Does "my grades suffered" mean "my grades became worse" or "my grades were bad"?
Awarded Jun 27 at 3:12
What does "the dogs of prescriptivism" mean?
Awarded Jun 26 at 13:08
Who is a "sibling"?
Awarded Jun 25 at 15:27
Difference between logoff, logout, signoff and signout
Awarded Jun 24 at 18:57
Do you have an expression saying "when you are very hungry, bread is also delicious for you" or similar one?
Awarded Jun 6 at 20:34
Is it ever more appropriate to use "incessant" over "constant"?
Awarded Jun 5 at 21:10
How do I say “±” in English?
Awarded Jun 5 at 11:27
Is there a word that means both "house" and "apartment"?
Awarded May 31 at 15:30
Why is zero plural?
Awarded May 23 at 15:17
Create vs. Generate vs. Make
Awarded May 14 at 10:18
Why add the word "solid" to the verb "freeze"? E.g., "The clothes froze solid on the washing line." Does the meaning change if we remove "solid"?
Awarded May 7 at 19:04
Is it idiomatic to say "I have to race with time" to mean I have to do a thing very fast and finish it before something bad might happen?
Awarded May 1 at 16:42
What would you call the ground floor if you were in a country where it is the first floor?
Awarded Apr 30 at 19:32
Can I say "keep your head tipping backwards for 2 minutes" to mean to keep the head still and in a state that it is fixed at a tipping position?
Awarded Apr 26 at 17:07
Do "tinker" and "tinkerer" imply "unskillful"?
Awarded Apr 25 at 17:27
Do you say "my car is high on fuel" as a counterpart of "my car is low on fuel"?
Awarded Apr 10 at 21:01
Why isn't there a way to say "catched up"? We can only say "caught up"
Awarded Apr 4 at 14:56
What does "zigs when others zag" mean?
Awarded Apr 4 at 8:48
Traffic is too loud to hear you
Awarded Apr 2 at 20:20
Should it be "IS" or "ARE"? --- "The only thing we haven't seen ARE locusts."
Awarded Mar 21 at 17:55
What do you call the "collars" of a bathrobe?
Awarded Mar 20 at 10:57
In the sentence "She says she has no friends," the number of friends is zero, why is "friends" still plural?
Awarded Mar 19 at 22:07
In the sentence "She says she has no friends," the number of friends is zero, why is "friends" still plural?
Awarded Mar 19 at 18:16
Why aren't "Bottom" and "Distance to deep water" the same in this context?
Awarded Mar 19 at 14:00
the joke in muppet sketch: the comedian's a bear
Awarded Mar 15 at 12:07
Is there a word to describe that somebody changed their mind (like "doch nicht")?
Awarded Mar 13 at 23:04
Is the term "dumping tours" a generic English term?
Awarded Mar 5 at 19:08
Why do dictionaries write /p/ instead of /pʰ/ for 'pie' in the ipa?
Awarded Feb 27 at 5:46
Explain "You People" please
Awarded Feb 23 at 22:50
When to repeat words like "thousand“, ”million“ or ”billion“
Awarded Feb 15 at 22:18
"I see" versus "oh really"
Awarded Feb 15 at 12:25
Why "having something UP one's sleeve," not "having something IN one's sleeve"?
Awarded Feb 7 at 16:04
What's the meaning of "cut down on the sawdust"?
Awarded Feb 7 at 9:06
Do we have a verb that expresses "to be hit or beaten by a group"?
Awarded Feb 3 at 3:11
What is a capital joke?
Awarded Jan 30 at 17:45
She was sleeping ___ the job (in/on/at)
Awarded Jan 24 at 3:25
Can we say "the pipe got stuck" to mean "the pipe got clogged"?
Awarded Jan 22 at 15:32
BBC: "She has planned abdominal surgery." | Does it mean: "She has undergone the surgery" OR "She has not."?
Awarded Jan 19 at 12:21
Many a girl... have or has?
Awarded Jan 16 at 15:11
Why would they call a petri dish of germs "preschool"?
Awarded Jan 15 at 0:41
Seeking an English Equivalent for the Concept of "Evil Eye"
Awarded Jan 13 at 3:36
Why did the BBC use "would have done" instead of Simple Past to describe this recent event?
Awarded Jan 10 at 15:36
Is "a Japanese novel" written in Japanese or can it be a translation?
Awarded Jan 10 at 0:06
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