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The word nikoli, when stressed on the second syllable, means "never", when stressed on the first it is the locative case of Nikola, i.e. Nicholas; Spanish – cuando las vacas vuelen ("when cows fly") or cuando los chanchos vuelen ("when pigs fly"). Its most common use is in response to an affirmative statement, for example "I saw Mrs. Smith ...
The phrase to put "lipstick on a pig" means making superficial or cosmetic changes to a product in a futile effort to disguise its fundamental failings.There are many phrases using pigs, monkeys, or swine, dating back to ancient times.
Futility or Futile may refer to: Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, an 1898 novel "Futility" (poem), 1918 poem by Wilfred Owen;
Here are the first two letters for each word: BR. CA. ON. SO. EL. RA. AN (SPANGRAM) NYT Strands Spangram Answer Today. Today's spangram answer on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, is ANIMATION.
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As a noun, this word refers to a loose-fitting garment that's worn over a person's clothes. It also means to hide or conceal something from view. OK, that's it for hints—I don't want to totally ...
Individual Borg rarely speak, although they do send a collective audio message to their targets, stating that "resistance is futile", often followed by a declaration that the target in question will be assimilated and its "biological and technological distinctiveness" will be added to their own. The exact phrasing varies and evolves over the ...
Several attempts to define the neologism [3] grimdark have been made: . Adam Roberts described it as fiction "where nobody is honourable and Might is Right", and as "the standard way of referring to fantasies that turn their backs on the more uplifting, Pre-Raphaelite visions of idealized medievaliana, and instead stress how nasty, brutish, short and, er, dark life back then 'really' was".