Twitter Google Share on Facebook Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia Wikipedia Related to Sir Thomas More:Anne Boleyn,Thomas Cromwell ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1. Sir Thomas More- English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was...
When two streets meet, you refer to each of the places where their edges meet as acorner. You useonwhen you are talking about the corner of a street. There is a hotelon the cornerof Main and Brisbane Streets. We can't have police officerson every corner. ...
a momentary silence at the end of a musical phrase, its time being taken from the last note of the phrase (which must, therefore, be shortened) so that there is not time lost between that note and the next Break (music) Break (French m.) estate car Break ad lib an improvised break...
— The Lost Despatch • Natalie Sumner Lincoln Read full book for free! ...astute Giddings, Douglass the little giant, and David Wilmot fight freedom's battle with the great apostle of State rights, Calhoun. He is supported by President Polk, the facile Secretary of State Buchanan, and th...
Bsb. abbreviation of 'Brisbane' BSc abbreviation of 'Bachelor of Science' bsc abbreviation of 'basic' bsd. abbreviation of besonders (German: especially - the equivalent abbreviation in English is esp.) 'B' Section in jazz, the 'bridge' passage B-Seite (German f.) B-side, flip side (col...
Part of the high-IQ fun of Minority Report Spielberg's sharpest, brawniest, mostbustlingentertainment since Raiders of the Lost Ark and the finest of the season's action epics . Synonym(s) bustle bustle about hustle Quotes bustling Brad Haddin in Sydney Morning Herald ...
1879 ‘Autobiog. of a Thief’ in Macmillan’s Mag. (London) XL 500: I was taken by two pals (companions) to an orchard to cop (steal) some fruit, me being a mug (inexperienced) at the game. 1880 Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Sept. 13/1: Young Weiss [...] has arrived in Brisbane aga...
Another source claims it originated with horseracing, when the favored winner lost the race. bollocks I have been hearing the exclamation "Bollocks!" frequently since I arrived in Australia, and I've taken it to mean the equivalent of "Bullshit!" However, I've gone astray in the first ...
1929 R. Coleman Girl From Back Home in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 98: Every gal in New York envies you [...] they all nudge each other and says, ‘There’s Jazz Barrett’s gal – Ain’t she the lucky dog!’. 1933 M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the ...
hard-hatA working-class conservative, so called from the protective metal or plastic helmet worn by construction workers.The Sunday Mail(Brisbane, June, 1970) offers the following explanation of the term: A“Hard Hat” is a construction worker, but his helmet symbolises all those beefy blue-col...