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informala person (usually preceded by a qualifying adjective, as in the phrasesrare bird, odd bird, clever bird) slangchieflyBrita girl or young woman, esp one's girlfriend slangprison or a term in prison (esp in the phrasedo bird; shortened frombirdlime, rhyming slang fortime) ...
We quickly befriended Marco, who taught us how to translate phrases into Italian, as one does when having a few pints in a foreign land. The funniest part of the evening was trying to give Marco some context to the phrase ‘you’re hard’, as in ‘you’re a tough guy’, which he ...
Almosteverypoemyouwillfindinyourtextbooksismadeupofcompletesentenceswithsubjectsandverbsand,inmanycases,objects,prepositionalphrases,subordinateclauses,andothersyntacticalelements.Theproblemisthatmostpoetsdon'twritethewayreportersandtextbookauthorsdo.Eventhoughtheywritecompletesentences,theychangetheorderofwords—placing....
Sometimes in musicals, the word choices and lack of rhyming in the singing, due to the fact that they are trying to tell a story, is totally annoying. If you aren't creative enough to have a song rhyme and sound good, AND tell a story at the same time, then write a different song...
To be sure, not all lines and not all versions are such, but even the most careful ones are insipid and ordinary, and only a few translators took the trouble of preserving the meter and rhyming pattern of the original. I realize that I am throwing stones from a glass house, for below...
I’m biased, but I really liked this part: “She played with the words. She fumbled with phrases, stumbled through sounds and rolled with the rhythms. She practiced without ever knowing that it was a practice.” 🙂 Horse Listening on February 18, 2013 at 12:36 pm Thanks. Yes, “...
scheme (and has its own double in the later Strangers on a Train and of course in the final scene of North by Northwest.) In between are the mealtimes and drinks and eggs and hands and all the personal imagery so familiar from the Hitchcock oeuvre that give the text its rhyming r...