Cuppa – slang term for “a cup of tea” Cut up rough – to become very angry Different kettle of fish – a different situation, a different state of affairs Dishy – handsome, attractive (used for men) (to) Do a bunk – to make a hurried or furtive departure or escape ...
Too many Chinese people have affected the long-term preservation of the hegemony of the United States. American military power has changed from offensive to defensive in the Western Pacific Ocean, and a group of countries in Southeast Asia have changed from American brothers to fence sitters. Amer...
The term gained new prominence in 2024, which doesn’t seem like great news in a super-election year. Then again, it might beat doomscrolling. The first recorded use dates back to 1854, but it took a while to take hold as they didn’t have TikTok then. ...
WebMD defines empath: “While it’s not an official psychological term, empaths are generally understood to be people who are extremely attuned to the feelings and emotions of others. The term stems from the word ’empathy,’ which is the ability to understand another person from their point ...
Same basic idea here, but in the longer term: set your life up with recurring systems to help you change. This is the basic theory that good hair salons are using when they schedule your next appointment at the end of the current one. It's taking one more thing you would have to not...
In the similitude of a nurse The phantom of the next one comes: I did not know what better or worse Chancings might bless or curse Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Share on You may also like: Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy ...
Well, here goes – it’s book launch time for Gerard Vanderleun’s book of essays! The title isThe Name In the Stone. Pleasego to the book websiteVanderleunBooks, take a look around, and order a book or books. It’s published in a very handsome-looking paperback edition, if I do...
I have always called them “buzzards.” To be factual and scientific, they are “vultures,” and “turkey vultures” in our part of the country. But “buzzard” was the common term where I grew up. I use this term just like I say “possum” and not “opossum.” I also say “ligh...
One reader asked if he could breed his rooster with the rooster's offspring, and the short answer isyes, but only in the short term. In livestock husbandry, what we'd usually call inbreeding is termed linebreeding. Do chickens know their owners?
The Trans-Siberian is actually just an umbrella term for a variety of routes that commence in Moscow. As well as the “classic” Moscow to Vladivostok route there’s also the Trans-Mongolian line, which dips south after Lake Baikal, crossing through Mongolia into the Gobi Desert and through...