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An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience. By convention, the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage. By convention, the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage.
See English language idioms derived from baseball and baseball metaphors for sex. Examination of the ethnocultural relevance of these idioms in English speech in areas such as news and political discourse (and how "Rituals, traditions, customs are very closely connected with language and form part and parcel of the linguacultural 'realia'") occurs.
A language is a dialect with an army and navy; The last drop makes the cup run over; Laugh before breakfast, cry before supper; Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone; Laughter is the best medicine; Late lunch makes day go faster; Learn a language, and you will avoid a war (Arab proverb) [5] Least said, soonest mended
Lawmakers often head home at the end of the year with a long to-do list left undone. But in 2023 Washington is leaving a remarkably long menu of business world items on the table.
In the end, he willingly put aside personal ambition, and did so for the unity of the party. It was received as a stunning act of selflessness and he's been widely praised. But that doesn't mean ...
The antient and modern stages survey'd, or, Mr. Collier's view of the immorality and profaness of the English stage set in a true light wherein some of Mr. Collier's mistakes are rectified, and the comparative morality of the English stage is asserted upon the parallel. London: Abel Roper. Edwards, Philip, ed. (2003) [first published 1985].
Oregon’s notoriously beautiful false spring arrived last week, only to be unceremoniously pushed aside by the return of winter. Temperatures jumped into the high 50s and even 60s late last week ...
The bank says it strives to make sure its borrowers provide real help to people pushed aside by big projects. In Laos, the bank says, authorities built more than 1,300 new homes with electricity and toilets, 32 schools and two health centers for thousands of people forced to move to make way for a World Bank-financed dam.