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 …

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 …

2014年7月18日 · The combination of words seems to have originated as part of a spoof advertising slogan in the 50s. It seems quite plausible (but obviously not certain) that this is the …

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'.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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