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A language is a dialect with an army and navy; The last drop makes the cup run over; Laugh before breakfast, cry before supper; Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone; Laughter is the best medicine; Late lunch makes day go faster; Learn a language, and you will avoid a war (Arab proverb) [5] Least said, soonest mended
Eloquence (from French eloquence from Latin eloquentia) is fluent, elegant, persuasive, and forceful speech, persuading an audience. Eloquence is both a natural talent and improved by knowledge of language, study of a specific subject to be addressed, philosophy, rationale and ability to form a persuasive set of tenets within a presentation.
New York Slang for saying something is over. Join the choir invisible [14] To die Neutral From an 1867 poem by George Eliot. Referenced in the Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch, also see Choir Invisible. Join the great majority [2] To die Euphemistic: First used by Edward Young, but the phrase 'the majority' is extremely old. Justifiable homicide ...
A Mid-Atlantic accent, [1] [2] [3] or Transatlantic accent, [4] [5] [6] is a consciously learned accent of English promoted in some American courses on acting, voice, and elocution, largely in the Northeastern United States, from the early to mid-20th century.
An idiom is a phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning, rather than making any literal sense.Categorized as formulaic language, an idiomatic expression's meaning is different from the literal meanings of each word inside it. [1]
Another way of saying – are you for real? [150] forty-niner Man who is prospecting for a rich wife [21] four flusher. Main article: Four flush. Person who feigns wealth while mooching off others [150] frail Woman [179] frame Giving false evidence to set up someone [180] frau. Main article: German honorifics. Wife [181] freebie
Related: The Office writer Mike Schur admits SNL's Japanese parody 'rankled' him: 'It didn't feel right to me in some way' By way of example, Hardin recounted that even on the pilot, improv was ...
Phonaesthetics (also spelled phonesthetics in North America) is the study of the beauty and pleasantness associated with the sounds of certain words or parts of words.The term was first used in this sense, perhaps by J. R. R. Tolkien, [1] during the mid-20th century and derives from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ) 'voice, sound' and αἰσθητική (aisthētikḗ) 'aesthetics'.