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What do you call the imprinted pattern left behind a car in mud?

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Can traffic lights "turn red" for ten minutes?

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Stubbed my toe... which preposition?

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Idioms in Coldplay's "The scientist"

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1 answer

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2 answers

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Word that would describe someone who is uncomfortably scrupulous towards others

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meaning of "Who do Dirk and Jake expect to see them in dreams?"

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1 answer

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1 answer

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2 answers

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1 answer

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108 Questions

What do you call the imprinted pattern left behind a car in mud?

Can traffic lights "turn red" for ten minutes?

Stubbed my toe... which preposition?

Meaning of “it does not do (to do something)”

Can you "club together" with something else than money?

Is there a phrase/word meaning "visit a place for a short period of time"?

How would a native speaker likely interpret the phrase "contemporary documentary" in this context?

Can you "carry a child" in your womb?

How do you pronounce "new" in British English?

Idioms in Coldplay's "The scientist"

What does "love is love is love" mean?

How can you put an extra opinion in a sentence?

Phrase to express something has had a great impact despite a negligible popularity?

Idiom using the metaphore of "shouting in the dark" & English equivalent

Word that would describe someone who is uncomfortably scrupulous towards others

Can "divisive" mean "intended to disrupt"?

What's the name of the place where you can exchange waste material for money?

Can there be a theory "on" something?

meaning of "Who do Dirk and Jake expect to see them in dreams?"

Meaning of "chug" elbow gesture

"it is in run"? Ways to express a functioning policy

What do you call Obama's face expression "not bad"?

How to count consciousness?

How to describe directed mimics?

What’s a word for a motif which is being overused and became boring

Police got someone "on 8 counts of statuary"

Can "observe" be replaced by "note"?

How to express my sold items are diverse?

What does David Mitchell say here?

We'd as well be 10 minutes back in time?