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- What is the meaning of "downplayed"?
- What is the meaning and origin of the idiom "to put a spoke in someone's wheel"?
- What is the meaning of cowboy?
- How is the word "poignant" pronounced?
- Know Your English WHAT IS the meaning and origin of "carrot and stick approach?"
- Does the expression "in short supply" mean the same thing as "in short order"?
- Can I say, "Harsha is a flibbertigibbet?"
- What is the difference between "dispute" and "quarrel"?
- WHAT IS the difference between a "vendor" and a "seller"?
- How do you pronounce the word "envelope"?
- What is the meaning and origin of the expression "red herring"?
- How do you greet someone who has just had a baby?
- WHAT IS the origin of the word "T-shirt"?
- Which of the following is correct? "At weekends/ on weekends"?
- What is the meaning of the expression "just the tip of the iceberg"?
- What is the difference "loath" and "loathe"?
Know Your English - September 2003
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passel discuss | |
| Definition: | (noun) (Often followed by "of") a large number or amount or extent. |
| Synonyms: | great deal, hatful, lot, peck, mickle, mint, quite a little, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad, stack, raft, mountain, pile, plenty, mass, batch, heap, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight |
| Usage: | The President faces a passel of domestic issues. |
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  The History of SaffronSpanning cultures, continents, and civilizations, the history of saffron in human cultivation and use reaches back more than 3,000 years. Saffron, a spice derived from the stigmas of saffron crocus plants, has been used as a seasoning, fragrance, dye, and medicine and has remained among the world's costliest substances throughout history. After saffron spread to America in the 18th c, demand grew so much that its price on the Philadelphia commodities exchange matched that of what precious metal? More... Discuss |
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 The Great Blondin Crosses Niagara Falls on Tightrope (1859)Best known as "The Great Blondin," Jean François Gravelet was a French tightrope walker and acrobat famous for making multiple crossings of Niagara Falls on a tightrope on several occasions. Balancing 160 feet (48 m) above the water on a 1,100-foot (335-m) tightrope, Blondin dazzled crowds by using a different theatrical variation each time he crossed, performing the feat blindfolded, in a sack, pushing a wheelbarrow, on stilts, carrying a man on his back, and sitting down to do what? More... Discuss |
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 Michael Phelps (1985)Phelps is an American swimmer who has won 16 Olympic medals, 14 of them gold. He started swimming as a child and competed in his first Olympics at 15. A year later, he became the youngest male ever to set a world swimming record, doing so in the 200-meter butterfly. In 2008, he set a record for most gold medals won at a single Olympiad—eight—while setting as many swimming records. Which swimmer voiced doubts about Phelps' ability to break the record but was happy to be proven wrong? More... Discuss |
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 I know that everything beautiful attracts love, but I cannot see how, by reason of being loved, that which is loved for its beauty is bound to love that which loves it.Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Discuss |
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