I hate Strong Female Characters
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/08/i-hate-strong-female-characters
And besides heroines, I want to see women in as many and varied secondary and character roles as men: female sidekicks, mentors, comic relief, rivals, villains. Peggy suddenly fires off several shots at Captain America, so that he must raise the shield (which does, thankfully, stop bullets) to avoid being killed
Understatement - TV Tropes
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Some, like Sir Ranulph Fiennes, have speculated that it would have been utterly impossible for Oates to go outside on his own, and the friends who knew he was a goner regardless helped Oates on his way. The opening narration from the "Train Job", provided by Book: "The central planets formed the Alliance and decided all the planets had to join under their rule
Blatant Lies - TV Tropes
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His favorite answer to "How do you know that?" is "My psychic scar told me." Subverted in one instance: Molly: This is much better gossip than last year's 'Albus Dumbledore was madly in love with Gellert Grindelwald.' Honestly, you'd think Rita Skeeter would learn to stop making up such sensational stories. It was hastily pulled with an explanation that it was just one of a series of videos they'd made to cover all the possibilities, including not finding the Higgs
http://www.englishcurrent.com/idioms/esl-idioms-intermediate-advanced/
I am very happy to read these idioms and phrases and being a very ordinary writer I Wii use these phrases to make my sentences meaningful and impressive
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1608
Jim said, July 28, 2009 @ 6:11 pm Are there any values of X that can preserve the meaning of "shut X up" as "'shut up' with great intensity", and for which X is not some form of invective? I'm almost wondering if the use of emphatic curses in English is a law unto itself, not paralleled by any other common grammatical feature. For broader linguistic interest (for those at least neutral as to the merits of his music), many of his albums from the mid-'80's on have some tracks with spoken-word recitative segments which display what I think is the quite lovely (although de gustibus
Go back - definition of go back by The Free Dictionary
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To undergo sudden financial failure:break, bust, collapse, crash, fail.Informal: fold.Idioms: go belly up, go bust, go on the rocks, go to the wall.phrasal verbgo upTo move upward on or along:ascend, climb, mount, scale.phrasal verbgo withTo be in keeping with:become, befit, conform, correspond, fit, match, suit.noun1
Kick - Kickin' It Wiki
http://disneyskickinit.wikia.com/wiki/Kick
Falafel Balls:They often go to Falafel Phil's together with the others and whilst Kim was fighting Zompyre Jerry in Wazombie Warriors, Jack threw her a falafel ball. When Jack's avatar was about to be beaten he thought about Kim and looked at her with a semi-sad look and decided to give Kim a fair match so she wouldn't be mad at him anymore
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703467304575383131592767868
The Piraha, a tribe in the Amazon in Brazil, whose language eschews number words in favor of terms like few and many, are not able to keep track of exact quantities. So does the language shape cultural values, or does the influence go the other way, or both? Languages, of course, are human creations, tools we invent and hone to suit our needs
Fall off the wagon - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/fall+off+the+wagon
See also: fall, off, the, wagonfall off the wagon to start drinking alcohol again, especially too much alcohol, after a period when you have not drunk any Six months later he fell off the wagon in spectacular fashion with a three-day drinking spree. See also: fall, off, the, wagon Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content
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Jerry Lee Lewis Richard Ben Cramer January 10, 2014 Diversity of thought, religion, ideology and freedom of expression is the underpinning of our democracy. The syntax of expressions generally follows conventional mathematical notation, though some languages such as Lisp or Forth have their own idiosyncratic syntax
A drop in the bucket - definition of a drop in the bucket by The Free Dictionary
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/a+drop+in+the+bucket
abandon, reject, desert, renounce, forsake, repudiate, disown, leave, jilt, throw over, disclaim, turn your back on He has dropped those friends who used to drink with him.12. fall, plunge, descent, abyss, chasm, precipice There was a sheer drop just outside my window.drop back or behind fall back, hang back You're driving too close so drop back a little bit.drop by or in (on) (Informal) visit, call, stop, turn up, look up, call in, look in (on), go and see, pop in (informal) I'll drop in on my way home.drop off1
kick - definition of kick in English from the Oxford dictionary
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/kick
Example sentences He felt the kick of the sniper rifle in his hands.Many recruits were worried about the kick of a rifle.She could see that he hadn't been lying when he had mentioned the gun's vicious kick; some of the students were unprepared and flinched backwards on impact. Get more examples Synonymsrecoil, spring back, fly back View synonyms noun Back to top 1A blow or forceful thrust with the foot: a kick in the head More example sentences But when the paramedics tried to leave, two youths attacked them, raining kicks and blows down on their heads and ribs.Zhao said she fell to her knees, and then felt repeated kicks or blows to both sides of her head.A more probable explanation for some injuries was that they were caused by blows and kicks
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