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Beat Around the Bush
28 Oct 2009Idiom #2
To “beat around the bush” is to avoid direct communication when broaching a topic or answering a question. Beating around the bush can be accomplished in a number of ways—using allusions, implicatures, tangents, rabbit trails, double negatives, answering questions with questions, giving tons of history and context, apologizing for things before you say what [...]
Hazard a Guess
27 Oct 2009Idiom #1
A Little History
This is my first idiom post so I chose “hazard a guess”—an figure of speech that I couldn’t BELIEVE my friends didn’t know. I then told myself I should start taking note of all idioms I use.
Hazard
A hazard is defined as a risk or a danger. Bad definition cause they are basically [...]
“It” as a Direct Object
In: Linguistics
20 May 2009English has a lot of rules.
Very often we are forced to throw in a garbage word like “it” or “that” just to fill up an implied object slot. For instance, “It’s raining.” What is raining? Dunno. Rain is falling, that’s really all there is to it. Too bad, English needs [...]
Fun Phrasal Homonyms!
In: Linguistics
6 Oct 2008It’s great when a word or phrase sounds exactly like another one!!
Here are a few examples… Can you think of any?
the sky / this guy The sky is falling. / This guy is falling.
might as well / Maya is well Migh’s well. / Maya’s well.
more is / Morris More is on the stove. / Morris on the stove
how is / house [...]
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