It was sometimes fed to pigs or other livestock, and the word became synonymous with refuse or food waste. One of the earliest giants of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer, played with this sense of “waste” by having one of his characters say “I lie as a draffsack in my bed,” ...
Synonyms for CRIMINALITY: crime, lawlessness, corruption, lawbreaking, malfeasance, racketeering, misconduct, gangsterism, evil, outlawry
sacred, consecrate; hold sacred; immortalize; set apart, dedicate," fromsacer(genitivesacri) "sacred, dedicated, holy, accursed." OED writes that, insacred, "the original ppl. notion (as pronunciation indicates) disappeared from the use of the word, which is now nearly synonymous with L....
synonymous with the progress of humanity should bring to us anything but good. Commerce is to lead the van in the new movement of the nations as it has in the past and the merchant consciously or unconsciously is going to anticipate and guide the statesman.—The Commercial a...
Set tricks(套路) Set tricks originally refer to a series of skills and tricks in Kung Fu. But this year the phrase has gradually been appropriated and become synonymous to a fixed trap employed by someone with evil intentions. Set tricks are usually routine strategy, almost equal t...
AlShuja’, the Snake, also was applied to Draco by the Arabians, as it was to Hydra; and AlHayyah, the Snake, appeared for it, though more common for our Serpens, with which word it was synonymous. Bayer had Palmesemeritus, the Exhausted Vine Branch, that I do not find elsewhere; ...
lone wolf 1909 a person who prefers to work, act, or live alone,[105] synonymous with self-sufficiency loose cannon 1973 an undisciplined person or program that dangerously lacks forethought; used in mid-November 1976 to describe $11 billion in unspent appropriations by the Ford Administration:...
creative ways. And in the process, we change the language. In retrospect, we often think the changes words undergo are fascinating. May we transfer some of that fascination and wonder — some of the awe that used to make the wordsawfulandawesomesynonymous — to the changes we’re witnessing...
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I’m in the business of sharing my love for Raygun and Pegboy. I’m in the business of loving Chicago. It’s hard to be a punk from this town and not do one without the other. They’re synonymous with each other. They’re like peanut butter and jelly, coffee and donuts, watered ...