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Newspapers should not be allowed to mark their own homework. [4] UK Home Secretary and former prime minister Theresa May said, in the context of a perceived lack of diversity in fire and rescue crews, "It is not so much marking your own homework as setting your own exam paper and resolving that you've passed – and it has to change." [5]
To "make one's bones" is an American English idiom meaning to take actions to establish achievement, status, or respect. [1] It is an idiomatic equivalent of "establish[ing] one's bona fides ". [ 2 ]
mobster: one who is in the mob. oath: becoming inducted as a made man. Omertà: to take a vow of silence in the Mafia, punishable by death if not upheld. one-way ride or taking someone for a ride: underworld for an execution method outfit: a clan, or family within the Mafia. old country: refers to Italy when used by members of the American Mafia
Insert question mark: sp: Spell out: Used to indicate that an abbreviation should be spelled out, such as in its first use stet: Let it stand: Indicates that proofreading marks should be ignored and the copy unchanged tr: transpose: Transpose the two words selected wf: Wrong font: Put text in correct font ww [3] Wrong word: Wrong word used (e.g ...
Photocopier or to make a photocopy Xerox: Xerox has used "trademark awareness" advertisements to prevent the brand from becoming a generic noun or verb, including such statements as "You can't make a Xerox." [235] However, it is used in the Philippines, [236] India, Russia, and Brazil as a generic word for 'photocopy'. Zamboni Ice resurfacer
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Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
— José Berríos is all floor but the last two years it's been a 3.63 ERA and a 1.170 WHIP while making 64 starts. Boring consistency, and let's also give him credit for a career of durability.