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What do you call the act of drinking a whole bottle of, say, water in one go?

answered Aug 13, 2018 at 21:51

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What's the difference between "vanilla" and "plain" when talking about yogurts?

meaning-in-context word-meaning word-difference

answered Aug 15, 2018 at 22:41

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Is "cops" (= police) a slang/derogatory term?

slang politeness

answered Jun 25, 2020 at 9:23

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"When you Frankenstein a team together..." - Is "Frankenstein" a new verb?

word-usage verbs figurative-language verbing

answered Oct 23, 2019 at 22:00

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"Transgender" versus the obsolete term "transgendered"

word-usage terminology

answered May 16, 2018 at 18:14

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Meaning of "be of" in the given context

meaning meaning-in-context phrase-meaning

answered Nov 6, 2018 at 3:56

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Why does the phrase "cross my fingers' mean just "cross middle finger over index finger"?

phrase-request etymology

answered Aug 27, 2018 at 1:18

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What does "guilty" mean in this context?

meaning-in-context word-meaning

answered Aug 31, 2020 at 19:58

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Can I say "guess what" to acknowledge new information?

phrase-meaning phrase-usage

answered Nov 29, 2019 at 15:34

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What does "that's that" mean in this context

meaning-in-context

answered Aug 30, 2020 at 15:43

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What does 'in first for' mean?

meaning-in-context usage headlinese

answered Jul 26, 2018 at 20:33

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What is the meaning of "shop-wise" in "… and talk turned shop-wise"?

meaning-in-context

answered Oct 3, 2019 at 12:09

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"lose her for two hours"?

meaning-in-context word-meaning

answered Dec 24, 2019 at 3:03

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How would the place one spent most time growing there be called?

word-request

answered Sep 10, 2021 at 17:56

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An analogy of "punish is to berate"

analogy

answered Aug 22, 2018 at 19:16

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What does "As in" mean here?

phrase-meaning phrases

answered May 8, 2018 at 1:14

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What do the phrase "Reeyan's seacrest" and the word "fraggle" mean in a sketch?

meaning-in-context word-meaning jokes

answered Apr 27, 2019 at 19:43

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How to understand "I had two try"

meaning-in-context parsing experiential-have

answered Dec 6, 2018 at 2:58

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Right or left? When the teacher says: "If you look at the diagram on the left hand side, you will solve this question!"(In a position like this?)

meaning-in-context sentence-meaning

answered Aug 15, 2018 at 21:18

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How to understand: "The owls are nothing next to the rumors that are flying around"?

phrase-meaning sentence-meaning metaphors

answered Sep 6, 2018 at 2:44

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What does "for" mean in "...for works written by and for the sophisticated adults .."

word-usage prepositions conjunctions ellipsis

answered Nov 16, 2017 at 6:18

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"One of them" vs. "One of which"

pronouns relative-pronouns relative-clauses

answered Aug 27, 2018 at 16:23

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When is it specific enough for 'the' to be used (e.g. [potential article] + [noun] + [prep.] + [another noun])?

articles

answered Feb 22, 2021 at 0:40

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How should we understand this conversation about the use of the phrase "you do you"?

meaning-in-context

answered Oct 4, 2020 at 23:58

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Meaning of a phrase in David Ricardo's literature

phrase-meaning sentence-structure

answered Oct 22, 2021 at 19:59

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What's "a liquid lie"?

meaning-in-context

answered Nov 7, 2018 at 14:32

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"I have been given it on the condition that I do not pass it on." What does that mean?

sentence-meaning

answered May 25, 2019 at 15:22

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It wonders me. Possible?

grammaticality verbs

answered Jun 3, 2019 at 16:18

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"For + him/her/them + was + to+infinitive" vs " was + for him/her/them to + infinitive"

infinitives prepositional-phrases

answered May 24, 2019 at 3:36

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Meaning of "critical language"

phrase-meaning sentence-meaning

answered Dec 25, 2018 at 18:56

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What do you call the act of drinking a whole bottle of, say, water in one go?

What's the difference between "vanilla" and "plain" when talking about yogurts?

Is "cops" (= police) a slang/derogatory term?

"When you Frankenstein a team together..." - Is "Frankenstein" a new verb?

"Transgender" versus the obsolete term "transgendered"

Meaning of "be of" in the given context

Why does the phrase "cross my fingers' mean just "cross middle finger over index finger"?

What does "guilty" mean in this context?

Can I say "guess what" to acknowledge new information?

What does "that's that" mean in this context

What does 'in first for' mean?

What is the meaning of "shop-wise" in "… and talk turned shop-wise"?

"lose her for two hours"?

How would the place one spent most time growing there be called?

An analogy of "punish is to berate"

What does "As in" mean here?

What do the phrase "Reeyan's seacrest" and the word "fraggle" mean in a sketch?

How to understand "I had two try"

Right or left? When the teacher says: "If you look at the diagram on the left hand side, you will solve this question!"(In a position like this?)

How to understand: "The owls are nothing next to the rumors that are flying around"?

What does "for" mean in "...for works written by and for the sophisticated adults .."

"One of them" vs. "One of which"

When is it specific enough for 'the' to be used (e.g. [potential article] + [noun] + [prep.] + [another noun])?

How should we understand this conversation about the use of the phrase "you do you"?

Meaning of a phrase in David Ricardo's literature

What's "a liquid lie"?

"I have been given it on the condition that I do not pass it on." What does that mean?

It wonders me. Possible?

"For + him/her/them + was + to+infinitive" vs " was + for him/her/them to + infinitive"

Meaning of "critical language"