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  2. 'From hunger' in Google Books and Elephind newspaper search results. A Google Books search for "from hunger' and various specific forms of that phrase yields no matches from the 1920s or from the first half of the 1930s in the relevant sense. In fact, the earliest match it finds is to S. J. Perelman's book, Strictly From Hunger (1937). Other ...

  3. What does the phrase "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish" mean?

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/44538

    Stay hungry = Always be curious to learn more and achieve more.. Stay foolish = Dare to make unconventional decision as Steve Jobs did when he quit his college to persue his quest, as Gandhi did when he adopted satyagraha against oppression, as Buffet did early in his career when he made some well calculated investments in low priced high potential companies.

  4. You quench your thirst. What do you do with your hunger?

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/58282/you-quench-your...

    When hunger no longer exists, I'd probably say "I'm full" rather than a statement indicating that my sense of hunger has dissipated. The way I see it, a feeling of fullness replaces hunger much more than a feeling of satiation replaces thirst, so there isn't a direct alternate to the word "quench" in relation to hunger.

  5. What does “bupkes” mean? - English Language & Usage Stack...

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/193855

    Here it appears that the word tsigene (“goat”) was included in the phrase tsigene bobkes to mean “goat droppings” because bobkes alone would have been understood simply as “beans.” Many authors provide an explicit “beans” translation for the Yiddish term.

  6. meaning - What does "frank" (noun, food-related) mean? - English...

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/424430/what-does-frank...

    I found the following text in the dictionary of soldier slang of WWII (my emphasis): beans 'n' weenies: C-ration beans and franks, a cornerstone of infrantry nutrition I assume that franks is a

  7. In English, one of the meanings of the verb "to suit" is to be pleased with, or to find suitable. So, for example, if you are trying to fit an appointment into someone's schedule, you might say:

  8. "to mimic" something, what level of precision does it mean?

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/129418

    The copy should appear (presumably to a user) to work in the same way as the original, what it does behind the scenes is irrelevant to this part of the specification. This may happen when new software is replacing old, and there is more will to make the programmers work hard than to retrain the users.

  9. What does "separating spin from facts" mean? [closed]

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/497288

    What does it mean exactly? Now that China has paused to reflect and reset, and despite the problems facing Arjun, India is in fact the world’s fastestgrowing big economy. Its GDP, the nation’s income, rose by 7 per cent in 2017, although the usual caveats about separating spin from facts in national statistics apply, especially in a country ...

  10. What does the phrase "Fee-fi-fo-fum" actually mean?

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/19501

    How about Fee, Fye, Pho, ƒum?Fee being the lesser of the Golden Section (or a value of 0.6180339), Fye being the greater of the Golden Section (or a value of 2.6180339), Pho being a shorthand for Fibonacci or Phyllotaxis, and ƒum being the word sum when written in old script.

  11. It really does just mean some measurement of position. So to correctly substitute into your quote: If your goals are measurable (as they should be), you can establish baselines. Run tests to find out how far you have progressed with regard to the metrics for your goals.