http://www.englishforums.com/English/GeneralEnglishGrammarQuestions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here.enCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/Crushing/gwqkz/post.htm#545229Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:43:27 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:545229Grammar Geek0http://www.englishforums.com/English/Crushing/gwqkz/post.htm#545229http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-545229.xml<p>Something they &quot;lean&quot; on figuratively.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Crushing/gwqwp/post.htm#545205Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:09:24 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:545205Marius Hancu1http://www.englishforums.com/English/Crushing/gwqwp/post.htm#545205http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-545205.xml&nbsp;<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="color:rgb(17, 17, 17);"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">walking aid</span></span></span></p><p>&nbsp;<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="color:rgb(17, 17, 17);"><b>sloppy</b> thinkers: poor, negligent thinkers </span></span><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Crushing/gwqwh/post.htm#545197Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:47:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:545197akdom2http://www.englishforums.com/English/Crushing/gwqwh/post.htm#545197http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-545197.xml..appreciate you help...<br /><br /><br />and what does&nbsp;that&nbsp;<span style="COLOR:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#c49b71;"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffdfbf;">crutch</span></span></strong></span> mean?&nbsp;<em>&nbsp; </em><span style="COLOR:#0000ff;"><em>&quot;it was a much-condemned conjunctive-disjunctive <span style="COLOR:#ff0000;"><strong>crutch</strong></span> of sloppy thinkers&quot;</em><br /><br /><br /><span style="COLOR:#111111;">I couldn&#39;t get the context of the word. and various explanations in the dictionary threw me off. </span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR:#111111;">1. means <span style="text-decoration:underline;">walking aid</span>?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It was a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">walking aid</span> of sloppy thinkers. (means these sloopy thinkers were crippled, inaccurate, unhealthy thinkers?)<br />2. means <em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">same as crotch</span></em>?&nbsp;&nbsp; It was kind of like an embarrasing mistakes of sloppy thinkers.&nbsp; (mean to be an insult?)&nbsp; I might be way off. </span></span><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Crushing/gwqhn/post.htm#545186Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:09:28 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:545186Marius Hancu3http://www.englishforums.com/English/Crushing/gwqhn/post.htm#545186http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-545186.xml<i>Perhaps in the <b>most decisive/utterly destructive&nbsp; blow</b> of all ...&nbsp;</i><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Crushing/gwqhd/post.htmTue, 22 Jul 2008 23:53:41 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:545176akdom4http://www.englishforums.com/English/Crushing/gwqhd/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-545176.xml<br /> <blockquote>&quot;The phrase has come under considerable criticism in the legal profession in both American and British courts. Judges have called it a &quot;freakish fad,&quot; an &quot;accuracy-destroying symbol,&quot; and &quot;meaningless.&quot;&nbsp; The Wisconsin Supreme Court referred to it as &quot;that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity.&quot;&nbsp; Perhaps most <strong><em><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="COLOR:#ff0000;">crushing</span></span></em></strong> of all, the Kentucky Supreme Court said it was a &quot;much-condemned conjunctive-disjunctive crutch of sloppy thinkers.&quot;&nbsp; .....&quot;</blockquote><br /><br /><br />What &#39;s the meaning of this <strong><em><span style="COLOR:#ff0000;">crushing</span></em></strong> here?&nbsp; I looked up in the Dictionary.com.&nbsp; The closest meaning I could find (I think) is : <span style="COLOR:#0000ff;">a decisive or critical moment or situation</span>.<br /><br />Does it also have a meaning of &quot;unbearable, excessive, too much&quot;&nbsp;?<br /><br />Is <span style="COLOR:#ff0000;"><strong><em>crushing</em></strong></span> a slang? informal?<div style="clear:both;"></div>