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This tag is for questions which a dictionary cannot answer asking the meaning of a particular expression.
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What does "..., won't you?" exactly mean?
My experience is that its meaning lies somewhere between your first two reasonable alternatives. The emotional scale goes from hoping you will do it, to asking courteously (please), to expecting, to i …
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Is "divergent popularities" an acceptable phrase?
Interesting question. Let’s start with the etymology of diverge
Etymology Online
diverge (v.) 1660s,
“move or lie in different directions from a common point" (the opposite of converge), from Modern …
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What’s that supposed to mean vs what does that suppose to mean vs what’s that suppose to mean
If I write “Life is a bowl of cherries”, the meaning is not immediately clear to you. You may imagine that I have a hidden meaning.
But you are not sure of my meaning (I may just mean “Life is simple” …
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