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- What is the meaning of the idiom "not let the grass grow under one's feet?
- What is the origin of "Uncle Sam"?
- How is the word "potpourri" pronounced?
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- What is the meaning of "go bananas"?
- What is the difference between "alibi" and "excuse"?
- Why do we play practical jokes on April 1 ?
- What is the meaning of "fait accompli"?
- WHAT IS the difference between "hospice" and "hospital"?
- What is the meaning and origin of the idiom "dark horse"?
- How is the word "flour" pronounced?
- What is the difference in meaning between "That may be the reason she didn't turn up" and "That might be reason she didn't turn up"?
- What is the meaning of "Jack Robinson"?
- WHAT IS the difference between "tasty" and "tasteful"?
- How is the word "penchant" pronounced?
- What is the meaning and origin of the idiom, "Don't count your chickens before they hatch"
- Which of the following sentences is correct? "I am busy the next week" or "I am busy next week"?
Know Your English - July 2002
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| Definition: | (noun) An incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums. |
| Synonyms: | calculus, tophus |
| Usage: | The dentist told me that I should brush and floss my teeth twice a day to help prevent the accumulation of tartar in my mouth. |
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  The Pilates MethodOften simply called Pilates, the Pilates Method is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates, who believed that mental and physical health are essential to one another. Pilates developed the method during WWI to help hospitalized veterans condition their bodies by strengthening, stretching, and stabilizing key muscles. The program focuses on the core postural muscles, spinal alignment, and breathing technique. What did Pilates originally call his method? More... Discuss |
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 "BTK" Serial Killer Dennis Rader Pleads Guilty to 10 Murders (2005)Rader was a city employee, married father of two, Boy Scout leader, and an active churchgoer—and a serial killer. From 1974 to 1991, he killed 10 people in and around Wichita, Kansas. In 2004, after years of silence, he resumed taunting police and local media with letters describing the murders. In February 2005, police used information on a floppy disk he had sent them to locate and arrest him. He pled guilty that June. Five days after his arrest, he was fired from his job—for what? More... Discuss |
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 Lafcadio Hearn (1850)Born in Greece and educated in Ireland, Hearn immigrated to the US at age 19 and lived in poverty for a time until he found employment as a journalist. He was a colorful but morbidly discontented man, admired for his highly polished tales of the macabre. In 1890, a magazine sent him to Japan, where he married a Japanese woman, took a Japanese name, and became a citizen. His subsequent books offered the West its first thoughtful view of Japanese culture. What partial disability did he have? More... Discuss |
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 My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child's nature, as a flower blooms, rather than crammed it, like a Strasbourg goose, with more than it could digest.Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Discuss |
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