On their respectable authority he introduced himself meekly to strangers as a "black sheep." I have never seen a more guileless specimen of an outcast. View in context The latter, whose name was Leonard Crane, came straight from a crude and almost cockney office of builders and house agents...
poke or stick your nose into something pry, interfere, meddle, intrude, snoop (informal), be inquisitive We don't take kindly to strangers who poke their noses into our affairs. turn up your nose at or turn your nose up at something or someone reject, refuse, turn down, spurn, say no...
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W. The consequences of talking to strangers: Evolutionary corollaries of socio-cultural influences on linguistic form. Lingua 117, 543–578 (2007). Google Scholar Raviv, L., Peckre, L. R. & Boeckx, C. What is simple is actually quite complex: A critical note on terminology in the ...
of his prose: “We moved across the sitting-room and, at the door, confronted the ladies, who were just about to wander in. There was the usual exchange of ‘sorries’ by which the English cover their acute embarrassment when proximity forces them to recognize the existence of strangers.”...
Strangers in Strange Lands at Cinequest 2013 Japan / Vietnam / India Celeste Heiter My life In Tokyo Japan / Thailand Stephen Bueckert Miyagawa, Takayama: A Morning By the Crystal River Japan Sze-Leng Tan Sakurajima Volvano Japan Jan Polatschek Explore Other Destinations China Myanmar Vietna...
Praying for a good employer whom they could please also helped both to mitigate their fears of moving into a home filled with strangers in an unknown country, and to dispel any lingering media image they may have had of abused migrant domestic workers in Malaysia. Halma3, a middle- aged ...
(For example: I counted eleven different types of M&Ms in a single convenience store.) I also notice how much strangers make small talk. There’s usually an adjustment period where I stare blankly at cashiers who ask about my day. I can no longer tell how much people actually want to ...
But it’s Pinky’s implacable ruthlessness rather than his smarts that make him so palpably threatening, willing as he is to snuff out strangers and friends alike without a second thought. Playing out in the “dark alleyways and festering slums” of pre-war Brighton, John Boulting’s ...
Welcome strangers: Southern range extensions for seven heterobranch sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) on the subtropical east Australian coast, a climate change hot spot Regional Studies in Marine Science, Volume 8, Part 1, 2016, pp. 27-32 Matt J. Nimbs, Stephen D.A. Smith Multi-scale analy...