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This tag is for questions about the meaning of a word, which a dictionary cannot answer. If the question is about the meaning of a word that can't be understood outside its phrase or sentence, the "meaning-in-context" tag should be also used; for the meaning of a phrase, use the "phrase-meaning" tag instead. Your question should normally include the dictionary definition of the word, and explain how the dictionary does not answer your question.
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What does this sentence mean? Is it a run-on?
From the Big Short movie:
But some of the fresh fish doesn't sell. I don't know why. Maybe it just came out halibut has the intelligence of a dolphin.
I can't discern the subject of the sentenc …
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What does "pram" mean?
I looked up "pram", but the word doesn't have a meaning close to what the context asks for. I am putting the audio here for reference (available through an audio sharing site Clyp). …
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The usage of "amateur night" as an adjective
There is a line in the movie Casino:
No matter what the Feds or the papers might have said about my car bombing, it was amateur night, you could tell. Whoever it was, they put the dynamite under t …
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What does "butt onions" mean in gambling?
Lines from Rounders (1998):
Joey Knish : [to Mike, gently grabs his arm and tries to find an empty seat at another table] come here, you don't want to "butt onions" with these guys because they c …
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Meaning of "ten minutes out"
There is a scene in the movie Drinking Buddies where Gene and Luke are talking in a bar.
Gene: I've been ten minutes out since I got here. I had one of these, and then I said, "I'm gonna have one of …
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What does "go-round" mean in this sentence?
I lighted upon a sentence on The Huffington Post:
The phrase that reached out and grabbed me this go-round was, “For it’s money they have and peace they lack.”
Merriam Webster defines it as "one …
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Does "to tot up" also mean "to gear up" in British English?
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It seems "tot themselves up" here means "gear themselves up", but the dictionary definition of "tot up" doesn't include this meaning. … According to Cambridge Dictionary:
tot sth up (UK)
to add up numbers or amounts of something, or to have a particular number or amount as a total when added up:
Does this phrase also have the meaning …
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"Take someone for something"
I have always understood take someone for something to have a similar meaning to peg someone for something. But I heard in the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels:
Look what I did in the dining car! …
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What is the meaning of "wrought" in this sentence and can it be replaced by "worked"?
However, I can't quite understand its meaning in this sentence from a book. …
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What does "take a collar" mean?
From the movie Goodfellas:
Police to gangster: Talk to me. When was the last time you took a collar? Fuckhead, I'm talking to you.
I can't find anything on the Internet. Does "take a collar" mea …
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What does "another minute" refer to?
It basically means
Madam Pomfrey said (that if it had gone on) another minute I could've lost my arm.
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The meaning of "look someone off"
I heard this in a movie:
he looked me off getting cheated at an old dealer's game at the old rancher.
"Looked me off" doesn't make much sense here. My understanding of the phrasal verb "look off …
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In "the" heaven and in "the" earth, but in hell
I believe Edgar Allan Poe is trying to invoke a passage from the Bible. (Credit goes to Gareth Rees for locating the passage)
Thine, O Lord is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the vic …
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What does "compared favorably to" mean?
As with a lot of English verbs, its intransitive usage is much similar to its main transitive usage in meaning. …
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How did "flavored" come to mean "distracted"?
There is a scene in the movie Beautiful Girls:
Marty: Are you OK?
Willie: Yeah. Yeah, I'm... Why?
Marty: You seem a little flavored today.
Willie: No! No, I'm cool.
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