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Questions related to English vocabulary, forms, phrases, and syntax that is now more commonly seen in written literature than in everyday speech. Also used for questions citing excerpts from works of literature.
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What does "ladies" mean here?
It’s an emasculating way to refer to a group of men, in this case said as a joke.
Off the top of my head, I can think of Wreck-it-Ralph as another example. The female commanding officer, Calhoun, uses …
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What does the phrase "I fish hold of it" mean, in the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front"?
"Fish hold of" is unidiomatic as a verb — I can't find another source in Google Books that uses it. It seems like it's some combination of "fish for" (NOAD: "search, typically by groping or feeling fo …
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It was a place of palms and sand and cuffs - is "cuffs" a typo?
Google Books has scans of The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: A Vintage From Atlantis and Pirate Ghosts of the American Coast: Stories of Hauntings at Sea, which have the word as “cliffs”.
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