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dish of cooked cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and other vegetables. Often made from the remains of the Sunday roast trimmings. budgerigar or (colloquial) budgie a small Australian parrot (US: not distinguished from other parakeets) buggered (vulgar, literally a synonym for 'sodomised') worn out; broken; thwarted, undermined, in a ...
Mistakes were made" is an expression that is commonly used as a rhetorical device, whereby a speaker acknowledges that a situation was handled poorly or inappropriately but seeks to evade any direct admission or accusation of responsibility by not specifying the person who made the mistakes, nor any specific act that was a mistake.
Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game is a book by Paul Midler, which chronicles his years spent working with American businessmen whose companies' products are manufactured in China.
Amid a downturn in demand for its luxury electric vehicles, Chanos heaped scorn on what he said was “a poorly made car” that’s very popular on the U.S. coasts, but not as much in other ...
Jolt Online Gaming gave Lula 3D a 1.8 out of 10 for making "every mistake that can possibly be made by the designers of a 3D adventure", criticizing its poorly-implemented controls and camera, tedious gameplay involving "mooching around listening to Lula's terribly voiced and poorly translated descriptions of everything around you, while ...
In the past few decades, the revenue made from tariffs have only accounted for around 2% of the federal revenue. For the fiscal year 2024, for instance, $77 billion was collected in tariffs, ...
A malapropism (/ ˈ m æ l ə p r ɒ p ɪ z əm /; also called a malaprop, acyrologia or Dogberryism) is the incorrect use of a word in place of a word with a similar sound, either unintentionally or for comedic effect, resulting in a nonsensical, often humorous utterance.
The second generation of the Ford Scorpio executive car made by Ford Germany received positive reception for its luxury interior, handling and performance, but the public's and press reaction to its unconventional styling, especially the "frog-eye" front, was largely negative, which made it become a sales flop. After only four years, it was ...