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- What does ‘play a blinder’ mean? Is it a popular phrase?
I came across the phrase ‘played a blinder’ in the following paragraph of the New York Times’ December 12 article, titled “British Euro Farce,” dealing with British Prime Minister David Cameron’s v
- etymology - Whats the origin of rob someone blind? - English . . .
0 You could compare this with the BrE expression playing [or pulling] a blinder This is a UK sports idiom for a brilliant performance, and used metaphorically in other areas (stackexchange) ie, the performance or trick is so stunningly brilliant that it 'blinds' the opponents and comprehensively defeats them There is also blind alley
- adjectives - Is there a word that means deliberately ignorant . . .
0 blinder-wearer Editor Publisher - Volume 118, Part 1 - Page 45 1985 No doubt this blinder-wearer also sees a distinction between the images displayed on his television screen
- To raise lower the blinds or to draw the blinds?
Raise lower or draw Generally draw is applied to curtains, where the meaning is usually to close the curtains, but it may also be used with "blinds", where the meaning must be inferred from the context Pull is also used, but rarer (Since all these terms are used, and they are quite dependent on local dialect, family traditions, etc, it's not worth getting your shorts in a knot worrying
- etymology - What is the origin of the word efforting? - English . . .
I hear this word used in place of words or phrases like "trying to" or "attempting to" What is the word origin of this verb? Research: Article regarding the word "efforting" Urban Dictionary -
- colloquialisms - Is the term blind spot something that only native . . .
1 Blind spot, at least when it means the part of the eye without photo-receptors, seems to have exactly the same name (or with the words reversed) calqued in a large number of different languages: point aveugle in French, Blinder Fleck in German, অন্ধবিন্দু in Bengali, bintik buta in Malay, 盲点 in Japanese, and many more
- What does the phrase play the . . . card mean? [closed]
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- grammar - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Dunno exactly what happened re the comment - maybe I and or Steve Blinder got mixed up with this ELL question, where I said Dickens habitually wrote "wos" instead of "was" when transcribing the reported speech of lower-class characters
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