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BobRodes

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What is a word with a negative connotation that describes a person who talks as if he or she knows everything?

answered Jan 30 at 4:58

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What is a person that works with make-up called?

answered Aug 9, 2017 at 4:08

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Why can't we say snakes crawl?

answered Dec 3, 2017 at 8:51

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What is "spilling the beans"? A proverb? A phrase? ...?

answered Apr 3, 2018 at 10:57

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What is the Kool-aid reference?

answered Apr 7, 2020 at 7:40

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In the morning VS on the morning

answered Mar 10, 2014 at 14:59

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"packing with a hard knot in the pit of his stomach" meaning

answered Nov 13, 2019 at 8:32

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Using the word 'whither'

answered Feb 4, 2021 at 9:27

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Is the word "cloths" still used?

answered May 15, 2014 at 15:28

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“On my own way vs. “in my own way”?

answered Nov 7, 2017 at 23:05

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Can "me" be a subject?

answered May 2, 2014 at 15:17

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"So am I" or "So do I"?

answered Mar 13, 2015 at 19:19

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"Could you please help me" vs "Could you help me please"

answered Feb 27, 2014 at 17:06

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What does "There's such a thing as ..." mean?

answered May 15, 2014 at 21:10

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Debris or Remains

answered Jun 14, 2014 at 18:32

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what is the difference between 'em and them

answered May 13, 2014 at 14:46

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What is the meaning of "Things the way they were"?

answered Feb 7, 2022 at 3:42

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Don't take this (or that?) the wrong way

answered May 11, 2014 at 16:48

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Is it "I" or "me" in "Keep Tom and I/me updated"?

answered May 15, 2014 at 19:32

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Can I say to my girlfriend "You are my whole"?

answered Jan 9, 2016 at 3:37

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Isn't 'charge a fee' redundant?

answered Feb 26, 2014 at 13:40

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Should I say "A or B is" or "A or B are"?

answered Mar 14, 2014 at 20:39

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Is "indices" or "indexes" the plural of "index"?

answered Jun 29, 2013 at 17:41

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How can I explain the difference between 'suppose', 'assume', and 'presume'?

answered Aug 22, 2013 at 0:49

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"Lunch", "Break", "Out to lunch"?

answered Aug 13, 2018 at 5:46

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Meaning of 'Let the galled jade wince'

answered Jan 23, 2017 at 5:33

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in four months / after four months / four months later

answered Jan 30 at 5:22

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I was chose or I was chosen?

answered Nov 7, 2017 at 3:17

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"That of", "those of", and possessives

answered Jun 25, 2017 at 19:49

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Why many abstract nouns get an indefinite article while it's taught that abstract nouns shouldn't get it?

answered Jan 12, 2018 at 4:15

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