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Cafe chalkboard advertising a "pre fixed" menu, an eggcorn of the French prix fixe (fixed price). An eggcorn is the alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements, [1] creating a new phrase which is plausible when used in the same context. [2]
Swell Foop is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-fifth book of the Xanth series. [1]The title is taken from a spoonerism for the Shakespearean phrase "one fell swoop," famously (but not first) [2] spoken by the tongue-twisted Peter Sellers character in the 1964 movie The Pink Panther.
The "Swoop and Squat" scheme may also involve three cars that work in tandem to cause a car accident: one pulls in front of the victim, the ‘squatter’, another cuts the car off in front of the victim a couple of seconds afterward the ‘swooper’ cuts both off, forcing the “squat” car to brake, while the third pulls alongside the ...
Thus one may refer to "three cattle" or "some cattle", but not "one cattle". "One head of cattle" is a valid though periphrastic way to refer to one animal of indeterminate or unknown age and sex; otherwise no universally used single-word singular form of cattle exists in modern English, other than the sex- and age-specific terms such as cow ...
One of the first words, written in ancient Greek, was translated to “disgust.” It appears twice within a few columns of text. The artifact is the fifth intact Herculaneum scroll to be ...
Besides elephants and rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses are the largest living land animal. Though they resemble giant pigs, their closest relatives are cetaceans like whales and porpoises. Hippos are ...
A witness first saw the gun poking through a crack between the apartment door and the frame. There had been a knock and an eerie silence, then an attempt by two men to force the door open.
This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps.Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank [clarification needed]).