high - (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high'); "a high mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high incline"; "a foot high" 3. upper - superior ...
Upper hand"advantage" is late 15c., perhaps from wrestling (get the over-handin the same sense is from early 14c.);lower hand"condition of having lost or failed to win superiority" (1690s) is rare. Upper crustis attested from mid-15c. in reference to the top crust of a loaf of bre...
you pull out a gun you carry for self-defense and fire a single shot. The man falls, dead. As a passing car illuminates the alley, you finally get a clear look at what is in his hand: not a gun, but a pamphlet: “We Are All Going to Die,” it reads, “So Make Sure You Ge...
I also do lessons on slang, idioms, and figures of speech…even advanced-level students can get derailed by something as seemingly simple as “a horse of a different color”. I don’t know that I’ll use the entire lesson, but it’s a tool to have on hand when the questions inevitab...
Something about not biting rile hand that feeds you because 81 the same time it's an imn fist in a velvet glove that's been trying to swep you under the rug ever since it became everybody else's doormat. (It's not worth reading that again.) The point is fhat it has become all ...
see also hand A11see also reach C2see also stiff A3 2. (in importance, rank) [echelons, ranks, caste]→ superiorupper management→ los altos cargos de la administración 3. (on scale) [limit]→ máximoproperties at the upper end of the market→ inmuebles de la sección más cara del...