Jan 9, 2015 · The answer would involve adjectives like good, sick, happy, etc. When you ask "How's the weather?", again, you are technically not asking for a description, but its state or condition. For questions like these, the distinction between "description" and "state" is pedantic, and you shouldn't worry too much about them.

Dec 7, 2014 · There is also (my son patiently explained to me) another be like usage which marries both of these: X be like Y employs a mimesis of X’s just-occurred singular performance of Y to express that that Y is characteristic of X. “Watt be like doodly-whomp!” for instance states that J.J. Watt’s brutal sack of the quarterback is the sort of ...

Apr 14, 2011 · It unnecessarily complicates the sentence (because both statements are logically equivalent) and does nothing to provide emphasis. Numbers are more precise. Instead of saying "A is not unlike B" or "A is like B", it'd be more precise to say "On a scale of 0-100% (where 100 is equivalence), A is 80% like B", even if 80% isn't backed by any metric.

"I would like cake and/or pie" means "I would like one or both of the following: cake; pie." The main reason for using and/or is to remove the ambiguity of whether and means "only both" and whether or means "only one." And/or explicitly means "it could be one of these or both of these."

Jun 14, 2012 · The pronunciation is usually an approximation of what we think the Old English pronunciation was, so something like the "short a" sound in the modern English word trap (IPA /æ/, or in some systems /a/), or perhaps for some speakers the "short e" sound in the modern English word dress (IPA /ɛ/).

I am on it in your first example sounds like a shortened version of I’m on the case, a colloquial way of saying that the speaker is dealing with it. In the context of some kind of dispute, as in your second example, they’re at it again means that they have started doing again whatever it was that was a component in the dispute.

Aug 23, 2014 · I would regard the "nd" in "second" as a suffix on the number "3", like the "th" in "20th". For example, I would suggest that "VIP" [Very Important Person] is made plural by adding a "-s" suffix, even though the resultant phrase [Very Important People] doesn't contain the letter "s" anywhere within it. –

Jun 9, 2018 · like a moth to a flame (idioms.thefreedictionary.com): If a person is attracted to someone or something like a moth to a flame, they are strongly attracted to them. Note: This expression is very variable. For example, you can talk about moths around a flame, or replace flame with candle. Men flock around her like moths around a flame.

Oct 21, 2016 · "It hit me like a ton of bricks." "It hit me like a bucket of ice cold water." I would like to know if there are some ways to say it in a positive way, as in being shocked in a good way. Thank you so much! Edit: Pardon me, I should've added context before! I'm translating a sentence in Spanish, in which someone is saying they were shocked (they ...

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