Body language - hand & fingers Do you know the names of fingers on your hands? When it comes to body language, they play an important part. In China, if you want to say ten, you can use this gesture. In the UK it means good luck But it is very rude to do it in Vietnam (南...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook have (one's) name taken (redirected fromhaving our names taken) have (one's) name taken In football (soccer), to receive a yellow card (and thus have one's name recorded in the referee's booklet). Primarily heard in UK, Ireland.It's questionable wheth...
We have focused on the names of the two species generally recognized as growing wild in the Mediterranean area:M. officinarumL. andM. autumnalisBertol. (see [20,21,22] for nomenclature and taxonomy), excluding the Asian species usually considered as different onesM. caulescensC.B. Clarke and...
The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb. dactylomancy noun (n.) Dactyliomancy. dactylonomy noun (n.) The art of numbering or counting by the fingers. daddy noun (n.) Diminutive of Dad....
This term for the personification of nippy weather has been in use since the early 18th century. But as one goes out in the street, and feels old “Jack Frost” nipping at his face and fingers, and in the course of his peregrination passes by the fur store of Mr. John Fareira, at...
"People think their hand is wider than it actually is," said Longo. Fingers also seem shorter.Sense of position "It is connected to our sense of position" explained Longo. This is our ability to tell where different parts of our bodies are, even when we can't see them. "It tells us...
I clench and unclench my sweaty fingers。 The speculum is a rude column of ice。 I focus on a pinprick of iodine staining the ceiling tile and force myself to imagine how it got there。 I will myself out of my body the way I used to do when I was bleeding。 The summer after yo...
on the British-Allied war effort, which was then transmitted back to Berlin. But even though Garcia was in the pay of the Nazis, he was actually working as a British double agent under the codename Garbo. None of Garcia’s spies were real, and the only tips he gave Germany were ...
Nearly all the old Boozevilles, Jackass Flats, Three Fingers, Hell-For-Sartains, Undershirt Hills, Razzle-Dazzles, Cow-Tails, Yellow Dogs, Jim-Jamses, Jump-Offs, Poker205 Citys and Skunktowns have yielded to the growth of delicacy206, but Tombstone still stands in Arizona, Goose Bill ...