Right you are, Dan. But from what I've witnessed here for the past three days, questions whose answers can be readily and satisfactorily apprehended online are soon closed by moderators …

2015年1月28日 · My understanding was that "N.B." meant "note well", meaning "this is important!" and drawing particular attention to what would otherwise be a unobtrusive footnote. If you …

2011年4月7日 · Tit and tat are used here to mean striking a light blow, so the phrase has exactly the same meaning as blow for blow. They were used as both nouns and verbs, as a sixteenth …