Nonsense, it is a fantastic definition for a good politician, good soldiers often finish six feet under ground, if there'll be anyone to dig. Cheers

Hello Thanks for your altruism. You are great.

Hello, I think it means that it is obvious... Cheers

Hello again pianne, I know that I am a headache, but would you mind to take a look at the final cut: 'I saw all that splendid architecture turned into the sand castles, melting into the sea, and ebbed away with the flow back of a smooth tide.'

Are you sure pieanne, the phrsal verb 'ebb away' is not neither transitive? " un grand merci"

Hello pieanne You are right, there is something wrong with that, but I think it should be 'ebbed away by'. Thank you

Hello, Both are nouns, but intent could be used as an adjective too. Cheers.

Hello, I have some doubts about the structure of the following sentence, would you mind telling me if there is anything wrong:'I saw all that splendid architecture turned into sand castles melting into the sea, and ebbing away by the flow of a

Hello, Or 'who put flowers on the flowers' grave' (Tom Waits)

Hello Antonia, Try webster unabridged, there you'll find all the idiomatic compounds for 'tall', including the one I gave above. I used to work as a translator and in such cases you have to find a metaphoric equivalent in the language that you