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a cow's caboose "You know him?" "I heard the dame call him Terry. Otherwise I don't know him from a cow's caboose. But i only been here two weeks." What does "from a cow's caboose" mean? What's the origin?
13 janvier 2014
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what is low-swung? a low-swung foreign speedster drifted into the parking lot. a low-swung Jaguar swept around the hill What does low-swung mean?
3 janvier 2014
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pansy up? The author described a office and said: It was an office no decorator had had a chance to pansy up. what does 'pansy up' mean?
2 janvier 2014
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why you add 'of' here In the two sentences "It asked questions—the kind a newspaper asks of public officials." "That was the last time I saw of him." Why you add "of" here when it can be dropped.
29 décembre 2013
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what is facey-wacey? I find it used in several places and I guess the meaning is face. but what else is implied?
28 décembre 2013
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what's the difference between "shouldn't do" and "shouldn't be doing"? All I can think of is that "shouldn't be doing" is used when you say to someone who is doing it right now. Is it right?
19 décembre 2013
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to stuff up "I just didn't want to tell my parents that I'd stuffed up once again." here "stuff up" means "make a big mistake" or "ruin"?
13 août 2012
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get too much for " All of the hardships these athletes have gone through for years are now bound up in this moment, you can kind of understand why it sometimes gets too much for them." what does "gets too much for them" here mean?
10 août 2012
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relation or relationship relationship is used between people and relation is used between other things like countries?
6 août 2012
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smartly dressed. does it mean "dress in a formal way"? or just mean "dress in a neat and clean way"? Not quite sure about the meaning of "smartly" here.
24 juillet 2012
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