2015年1月10日 · If this Ngram is anything to go by, get sick is more common than fall ill by a long way—but until around 1850, fall sick was actually the most common of the lot, while get ill has been consistently quite limited. The same in BrE shows quite a lot more variation, though get sick and fall ill are still the most common nowadays.

2019年9月27日 · When we use "fall behind with" and "fall behind on"? I mean when we use that verb with "with" and when we use with "on"? He was ill for six weeks and fell behind with his schoolwork. I've fallen be...

2017年4月24日 · Likely a biblical reference in origin; seen as turning pregnancy into an activity solely involving the woman and freeing the man from responsibility. (en-wiki ) The meaning of the term, however, has altered greatly since the advent of the welfare state. Girls or women now "fall pregnant" in much the same way that any of us "falls" ill. Unlike in the past, there is no badge of shame. (How words ...

2014年11月22日 · We fall ill, sick, pregnant (if we're female), victim, etc. We fall lots of things, mostly negative ones. I wonder if the French tomber amoureux has anything to do with the English one. In French you also fall lots of adjectives, one of them being amoureux; but English doesn't really have a native adjective to correspond, so I suppose the prepositional phrase could just be a way of calquing ...

2011年3月20日 · "Ill" generically referred to being unwell, whereas "sick" referred to vomiting — this still persists to some degree. In modern times there has been (and still is to a degree) a distinction between upper-class and non-upper-class usage in British English.

2012年4月3日 · Possible Duplicate: When should I use “shall” versus “will”? I have learnt in school we should use shall with I, you and we. But I often see people saying I will, you wi...

2015年1月28日 · First, if they were to fall sick out there in the course of the work, where there is no house nor refuge of any sort from the chief they call Caonabo (who by all accounts is a very bad man and - even more - a very bold one), he seeing us there enfeebled and ill, would be able to undertake that which he would not dare if we were in normal health.

2011年6月13日 · The concept behind the phrase is that some areas of life are so important and overwhelming that you cannot blame someone for acting in their own best interest. For war, this implies that spies, torture, lying, backstabbing, making deals with enemies, selling out allies, bombing civilians, wounding instead of killing, and so on are "fair game" in the sense that by taking these options off of ...

2021年7月11日 · 'Riding a gravy train' idiom means getting a job or other source of income that generates abundant money with little effort. However, what is the origin of this phrase and why it makes sense at all...

It means something is paid from personal funds. Somehow "out of pocket" has become a new business catchphrase meaning "unreachable, out of communication", "unavailable", which is incorrect. Correct use is: My doctor's office refuses to bill insurance companies any more, so I was out of pocket for the entire payment until I did all of the paperwork myself for reimbursement.