Ooh, what's wrong, right clothes for inhibitions? / You couldn't afford the price of admission. Now the girl in this scene is wearing black body-fitting clothes. So is the guy telling her the clothes are not just for looking and she

. Leave at least one space between the number and a bracket, like this: and . Santa would have left his home by yesterday. He would have finished the project by yesterday. Do they mean we used to expect, or might have expected to have left ... or

Goodman, the phrase "I am screwed" is a common one. It doesn't require deliberate action on the part of another to cause the problem. Life can screw you. Traffic can screw you. Your competing priorities can screw you. In those

Hi friends, Thanks a lot for your help on it. I got it and next time I will provide more context rather than just a simple sentence inlcuding the words or phrases need to be explained for your further reference. Thanks again. Claire

Thank you. Obviously there were some contextual inconsistencies and thank you for bringing them to light. Now, what I am wondering or have difficulty with how or when to stop using the present perfect when I think one can go on and on with the

I didn't quite catch that ," but while the latter could mean that either one did not  mentally  grasp the intended meaning OR a more  technical  problem (speaker too quiet, listener too distracted, only heard part of the phrase,

Han Donghoon schrieb: I wonder the exact meaning of heart-balm used in this context, (background: 1910s America) "Before you go, Bland," remarked ... soothing"? So heart-balm means the balm rubbed at chest in order to soothe the

I personally would favor "...so mundane in their achingly rampant minutiae." Rampant? The literary lions here in aue are, on average, too elderly to balance on their left legs. Rampant...lions...I get that one! Well, perhaps if they had

(snip much) The people who complain loudly about the "nearly all" one ... *happen* much. (These questions are not necessarily aimed at Bob.) I'm so accustomed to reading things where people are attacking the "kill nearly

Hello, newbie here. I'm currently translating a movie-script to German and I'm having a problem with the phrase "tuck your teeth in". Is it a reference or an original phrase, and in what context is it normally used (eg amongst