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Have a nice day. Plastic shopping bag in the United States, inviting the customer to "have a nice day". Have a nice day is a commonly spoken expression used to conclude a conversation (whether brief or extensive), or end a message by hoping the person to whom it is addressed experiences a pleasant day. It is often uttered by service employees ...
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as emoji.
Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, 'picture') + moji (文字, 'character'); the resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental. [ 4] The first emoji sets were created by Japanese portable electronic device companies in the late 1980s and the 1990s. [ 5]
In 2002, for instance, Muholi started work on their first photographic series, “Only Half the Picture” (2002–2006), documenting survivors of hate crimes across South Africa’s townships.
A smiley, sometimes called a smiley face, is a basic ideogram representing a smiling face. [1] [2] Since the 1950s, it has become part of popular culture worldwide, used either as a standalone ideogram or as a form of communication, such as emoticons. The smiley began as two dots and a line representing eyes and a mouth.
Higher prices have gone too far even for salty snacks – and these snackers are pulling back from popular brands.
McDonald’s has dropped smiles from Happy Meals in honour of Mental Awareness Health Week. From 13 to 19 May, McDonald’s UK division changed the design of their Happy Meals to exclude the ...