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You are never too old to learn; You are what you eat; You can have too much of a good thing; You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink; You can never/never can tell; You cannot always get what you want; You cannot burn a candle at both ends. You cannot have your cake and eat it too; You cannot get blood out of a stone
British English American English Longsleeve knit top jumper [1] sweater [2] [3] Sleeveless knit top sleeveless jumper, slipover, [4] knit tank top sweater vest [3] Sleeveless dress worn over a shirt Pinafore, pinny, pinafore dress [5] Jumper, jumper dress, dress Old-fashioned style of apron Pinafore apron [6] Pinafore, pinafore apron [6]
Dressing is so easy to make; just combine whatever ingredients suit your fancy and shake. Yet it can feel so hard to do one more thing at dinnertime some nights.
Demonstrations of sentences where the semantic interpretation is bound to context or knowledge of the world. The large ball crashed right through the table because it was made of Styrofoam: ambiguous use of a pronoun: The word "it" refers to the table being made of Styrofoam; but "it" would immediately refer to the large ball if we replaced ...
Stuffing, filling, or dressing is an edible mixture, often composed of herbs and a starch such as bread, used to fill a cavity in the preparation of another food item. Many foods may be stuffed, including poultry , seafood , and vegetables .
Lagom is most often used as an adverb, as in the sentence "Han är lagom lång" (literally ' He is just the right height '). Lagom can also be used as an adjective: "Klänningen var lagom för henne" (literally ' The dress was just right for her '), which would be equivalent to ' The dress fits her '.
Side-boob as an accessory is back and better than ever. At the Monday premiere of her latest film, A Good Person , Florence Pugh elevated the revealing trend by wearing a black-and-white gown from ...
Puffery is an example of positively loaded language; negatively loaded language should be avoided just as much. People responsible for "public spending" (the neutral term) can be loaded both ways, as "tax-and-spend politicians borrowing off the backs of our grandchildren" or "public servants ensuring crucial investment in our essential ...