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What do you call a "Director's cut/minority report/dissenting opinion" if it regards a report/book?
There is "Director's cut" for movies and "minority report/dissenting opinion" for legal issues. What do you call a (longer) report, where the author states some things a little (or very) different ...
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Word for situation in which there is no alternative
What is a word to describe the situation in which there is no alternative or something cannot be helped?
I am looking for a neutral word, similar to impotent, instead of the slightly negative ...
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Term for pleasure or joy obtained on top of others' misery or unhappiness [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
An idiom for deriving pleasure from another's suffering
We often experience the following:
We feel happy when our fellow classmates get a bad grade and not
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A term for providing irrelevant and hiding relevant information [closed]
For example, you're doing a research for a car to purchase. You get a list of cars with engine number, city where a car was assembled, and a color. What's missing is make, model and price.
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Term for the type of audible reaction typically written as "heh" or "hmph"
Is there a term for a person's audible reaction, the quoted written form of which we typically find spelled as heh or hmph?
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Is there an idiom for people who boast too much?
I am looking for idioms or informal/slang/colloquial expression for some people that make you think that they are able of building a skyscraper, constructing a spaceship, playing the piano better than ...
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What do you call the sound of a bell?
If you wanted to describe the sound of a small brass bell that you can hold in your hand (this is an example image of what I mean - what word would you use? Brrring? Bling?
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What is a word or expression to describe anxiety about the passing of time?
What is a word or expression to describe a feeling of anxiety about the passing of time?
I am not referring to boredom which refers to not having anything to do or being dissatisfied with what I'm ...
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What is the name of this figure of speech?
I've been reading Nevil Shute books recently, and they are set in late-1940s Britain. As a consequence, the characters are always using expressions such as "frightfully good", "terribly good" and "...
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Word for "a sudden death"
A neighbour of mine died last week a moment after reaching his climax during the sexual intercourse with his young partner. He was 79 years old.
Is there any available English word to describe his ...
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What does "it tastes like horspy" mean?
I heard an expression today but I did not know how it is written or what it is. And I could not find it with Google.
It's something like:
it tastes like horspy
Any pointers?
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Word, idiom or expression to describe feeling full (after eating)
For example:
I like how you conveniently informed us after most of us had eaten already and we are [feeling full].
The phrase in brackets sounds unnatural to me. Would you suggest how to rephrase ...
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Words to describe a semi-literate person
I once had a manager whose level of literacy was lacking to the extent that he would nearly always return my technical reports with sections rewritten such that they became either ungrammatical, or ...
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What do you call the additional paper used during exam and homework?
When doing exams or homework, one might need some extra paper to make a rough sketch, before writing his solution into another paper that must be turned in. The extra paper does not need to be turned ...
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How do we say "domestic apples" in normal English
If you are serving apple pie and you want to write the menu so that the customer understands that the apples in the pie are from THE VERY CITY that the restaurant is in, how can I rewrite this phrase:
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