= expression that means that you definitely agree with what was just said. I'm all ears A: Doug, I've discovered the meaning of life. B: Really? I'm all ears. Definition = I'm listening intently. small talk After some small talk, the interview began. Definition = discussion about li...
and how interesting he is and she’s all excited ’cause she’s going to have coffee with him.” It is on its way to clichédom. An earlier usage with nearly the same meaning of empty talk isblah-blah-blah.It dates from the early 1900s.Harper’smagazine had it in July 1991: “Yo...
Hindi-Urdu uses different encoding for possessors. There is no Hindi-Urdu equivalent of the English verb `to have', even though there are ways to express this meaning using different sentential structures. Mohanan (1994) talks about `possession' in the realm of Genitive Logical Subject, and ...
Either toast or saute in a little bacon fat over the fire in a frying pan. Sounds delicious to us! Meanwhile cheesecake is the cat’s pajamas Cheesecake meaning revealing photographs of women is also from 1929, says the OED. From a an issue of Photo-Era magazine: “It was with the ...