When angry taxpayers liken the Internal Revenue Service to "vultures," they're actually making a deep linguistic connection. During the Middle Ages, English officials would charge a tax on non-resident merchants who sold goods on the streets. This duty was known as ascavage(after a Middle Fre...
rafts of mallards and pintails, and waves of snow geese mile after mile after mile. In a society that’s been hijacked linguistically by the abuse of hyperbole, “spectacle,” in fact, is truly the only word that accurately attempts to describe the simultaneous movement of millions of waterf...
There is great diversity of collective nouns associated with animals, from a sleuth of bears to a murder of crows. The following is a list of the correct terms to describe groups of various types of animals. Collective NameAnimal herd of antelope army of ants colony of ants swarm of ants ...
The second element to hip hop is rapping or MCing. MC is short for “master of ceremonies,” people who originally hosted parties and introduced new tracks to the audience but eventually MC became the term to describe rappers. Rapping is the art of saying lyrics or rhymes to the beat of...
Later that afternoon a mule fell in an accident. Vultures were circling above waiting for it to die. Note the solar panels, it’s just for the hot water. That means no hot water at night. View of the fishtail mountain at dawn.
Proverbs 30:15 sn The next two verses describe insatiable things, things that are problematic to normal life. The meaning of v. 15a and its relationship to 15b is debated. But the “leech” seems to have been selected to begin the section because it was symbolic of greed—it sucks blood...
would give up the information, though, Menelaus had to capture him—no mean feat, since Proteus had the ability to change into any natural shape he chose. The word protean came to describe this ability to change into many different shapes or to play many different roles in quick succession....
One of your characters inMonstressused the term, “chop-suey cinema,” to describe the splicing together of East and West genres. Your writing defies stereotypes. You do not stigmatize your Filipino characters. What advice can you give to writers who want to write about characters where English...
ceremonial activities. Cut marks from the bird bones indicate some birds had their skins or wings removed, suggesting the making of elaborate costumes from the feathers of large birds of prey, including eagles and vultures, as well as buzzards (White et al., in press). A high level of per...
In the veldt on page 1 pair. 2 it says “ This house which has clothed us, fed us, sang to us, and played with them. It's the type of house everyone should have.” In other words this means the this house has taken advantage of everyone in it and is doing jobs the parents sho...