
What's the difference between “bucket” and “pail”?
Pail, sad to say, is utterly lacking in this regard. EDIT: Taking a look through Google's N-Gram viewer, it's not hard to see why: This comparison of bucket and pail from 1800 till today shows …
What is the origin of the phrase "beyond the pale"?
2011年5月7日 · From World Wide Words:. Pale is an old name for a pointed piece of wood driven into the ground and — by an obvious extension — to a barrier made of such stakes, a palisade …
What is the origin of "Robbing Peter to pay Paul"?
2011年8月27日 · The origin comes from the Peter tax and the Paul tax:. The expression refers to times before the Reformation when Church taxes had to be paid to St. Paul's church in …
word choice - What are these containers called for waste?
2019年12月22日 · When I was a kid in the 1960s we had both a trash can and a garbage pail, because, I think, the city collected them separately. Rubbish is mostly a British term. (I now …
If my boat is sinking should I bale or bail the water out?
2018年10月6日 · From various literary examples it appears that I should manually 'bail' out the water to keep afloat but the automated water removal system in my vessel is a 'baling pump'.
etymology - Origin of "tail over teakettle"? - English Language
2014年7月21日 · According to The Phrase Finder, it is a variation of ass end over teakettle and actually Ngran shows that its usage started a few years later.
The "wrought /wreaked havoc" misunderstanding
2016年2月7日 · Here's an Ngram chart that tracks the frequency in Google Books search results of "wrought havoc" (blue line) versus "wreaked havoc" versus "worked havoc" (green line) for …
What does it mean to call someone a 'drink of water'?
2015年8月23日 · Meaning (of "long drink of water") is ambiguous, just generally meaning "tall", as reflected in answers here, though specific use can have connotations of "tall and attractive …
Is there a word to describe indecisiveness between two things?
The ass in question is a donkey that is equally thirsty and hungry, finds itself midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water, and, unable to make its mind up, dies of hunger and thirst. …
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