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How to better express "Dwayne Johnson has been given more footage than Jason Statham in the movie" [closed]
By footage I do not mean on screen time. I mean Dwayne Jhonson has been given scenes that show him to be better than Jason Statham. Although both were given roughly the same on screen time, Dwayne was ...
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Expressions that mean it's OK to fail or failing is part of success? [closed]
Is there a list of expressions (about 3 words, longer or shorter) that mean "it's OK to fail"?
I'm asking for a list of expressions because I am looking for a domain name and most good domain names ...
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Expression for "dividing something with others"?
In a play, a girl finds some stolen treasure and divides it among her friends. I ask for an expression which is used to describe this heroine that wants to share with her friends.
Within the dialog ...
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What is an expression for "getting older in appearance"?
"The children in school grew up so fast. They, like their parents,
went about their professional career. In a flash they became gray and
grizzled, and were getting tired of life."
Is there a ...
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What could be an appropriate word in between long-lived event and short-lived event?
I am wondering a word to express the moderated values between long-lived and short-lived events. For example, I would like to describe heat wave durations. My durations are 1hr, 2hr, 3hr, .., 10hr. I ...
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Word for a sudden flow of ideas? Is 'brainwave' good enough?
Imagine you are thinking about a problem you need to solve, nothing's coming to mind, and all of a sudden you get a dozen different ideas at once. Is there a word that expresses this sudden flow of ...
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Lost In Punctuation
Usually, when a piece of text is translated from one language to some other language, and (due to slightly different idioms, phrases, words, etc.) the end meaning is changed, then it is attributed to ...
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Is there a noun(phrase) meaning 'the state' of being a masterpiece?
'Masterpiece' is a noun. I would like, however, to use a noun or a concise noun phrase which refers not to a masterpiece, but its state of being a masterpiece. I thought of using 'masterpieciness' as ...
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Word or phrase describing on/off state
English is not my primary language so I have hard time with this problem. I am currently writing comments to computer code. There is setting that enable/disable some functionality. What would be ...
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A word or expression that means somebody's name is not "real"
I'm interviewing someone and he doesn't want his real name showing up, so how could I rephrase the following sentence?
We hide his real name under the name Luke.
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Single word for attributing inappropriate motives to others' actions?
Is there a single word to describe someone who often attributes inappropriately trivial/cheap motives to another person's actions? I'm thinking along the lines of someone who puts himself briefly in ...
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Expression/word combination for "object of application"
I need to be able to refer to an object which has/needs something applied to it or used on it. A couple of examples:
one liter of paint is needed to paint an area of 10m².
6 birthday candles are ...
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Is there a word for someone who is usually in the minority?
My original question was "Is there a legitimate word for 'a balancer'?" but I think it's a little hard to understand...
Let's just say there is a person, and most of the time, he is in the minority. ...
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One word to say to someone who's being in a state they're usually not (or doing something they never did)?
In my native language, there is a singe word to say to someone who apparently are doing something they never did before, or being in state they never were before. Like:
Mr. X had always been late. ...
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