Just a simple “yes sir, no sir/ yes ma’am, no ma’am” — Antreal Allen (@Antreal_Allen) May 15, 2018 Outside of formal contexts, yes ma’am can add color and humor to an emphatic expression of approval, appreciation, or agreement, as if imagining an older or superior female...
Thank you very much .good lesson sir. Sulakshana thank u so much doshikar I’m not studying for high education but for these lesson, it helps me a lot to be a good speaker of English language, just please correct my English Grammar. I wish one of you I can talk daily. thank you...
Late one night; we’re very tired. They stole our minds and thought we’d never know it. With a bottle in each hand; too late to try to understand. We don’t care where it lands–we just throw it. When you go out in the street, so many hassles with the heat [hippie slang for...
” So, too, do some reluctant attendees to the company party/picnic mutter to themselves, “Aye, aye, sir. Three bags full, sir. It’s not ‘play’ if it’s required, no matter how much booze is on offer.” The well-meant but ham-fisted proclamation of the Boss Cat(s), “Let ...
This first citation of a common British idiom [meaning, “so ridiculous, it would coax a laugh out of an improbable source”], is from The Queen of the Frogs, the last of 176 plays written by James Robinson Planche, in 1879. Besides turning French fairy tales into satirical comedies for...
老父 lǎofù, father/old man/venerable sir老罗 二老 èrlǎo, mother and father/parents老伴儿 lǎobànr, [老伴兒], erhua variant of 老伴[lǎo bàn]老花花 中老年 zhōnglǎonián, middle and old age中老年人 zhōnglǎoniánrén, middle-aged and elderly people老虎凳 lǎohǔdèng, ...
老父 lǎofù, father/old man/venerable sir老罗 二老 èrlǎo, mother and father/parents老伴儿 lǎobànr, [老伴兒], erhua variant of 老伴[lǎo bàn]老花花 中老年 zhōnglǎonián, middle and old age中老年人 zhōnglǎoniánrén, middle-aged and elderly people老虎凳 lǎohǔdèng, ...
字里行间 zìlǐhángjiān, [字裡行間], between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning/connotations伊利里亚 哈里·胡迪尼 布里斯 马卡斯奥里勒斯 佩里戈 里氏 Lǐshì, Richter (scale)里洛 鲍里索夫 特里尔 Tèlǐěr, [特里爾], Trier (city in Germany)奥布里·弗莱明 阿马里洛 格里菲斯 ...
恘 qiū, meaning uncertain, related to 戾[lì], to violate 烋 xiāo, to boil or fumigate 茠 xiū, to weed/to eradicate 貅 xiū, see 貔貅[pí xiū], composite mythical animal (originally 貅 was the female) 髹 xiū, red lacquer/to lacquer 鸺 xiū, [鵂], owl 恷 烌 銝 鮴 鵂...
老父 lǎofù, father/old man/venerable sir老罗 二老 èrlǎo, mother and father/parents老伴儿 lǎobànr, [老伴兒], erhua variant of 老伴[lǎo bàn]老花花 中老年 zhōnglǎonián, middle and old age中老年人 zhōnglǎoniánrén, middle-aged and elderly people老虎凳 lǎohǔdèng, ...