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- What does ‘play a blinder’ mean? Is it a popular phrase?
play a blinder perform very well informal Dating from the 1950s, blinder is a colloquial term for 'dazzlingly good piece of play' in sport, especially in rugby or cricket [Example:] 2001 Sun Gilles will start and I would just love him to play a blinder and score a couple of goals to knock Southampton out of the cup
- adjectives - Is there a word that means deliberately ignorant . . .
tactical stupidity lame Passive-aggressive wilful ignorance wilful blindness bury one's head in the sand in denial three wise monkeys attitude cognitive bias optimism bias ostrich effect obstinate apathetic negligent blinder-wearer wilful neglect cowardice selfish delusional irresponsible psychopathic sociopathic socially impaired obdurate
- single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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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 Which I seriously doubt meaningfully reflects any specific variant of "standard pronunciation"
- etymology - Whats the origin of rob someone blind? - English . . .
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 A blind
- etymology - What is the origin of the word efforting? - English . . .
Conclusion In my research, I didn't find any instances of efforting used in the obsolete transitive sense that Wiktionary attributes to effort as a verb; the instance of efforted that Wiktionary cites is legitimate and interesting, but I didn't find any other instances in which efforted clearly carried the old sense of the word
- What’s the difference between “Go all out” and “Go all in”?
The main difference between the two is that "all out" just emphasizes the magnitude of someone's effort while "all in" implies the investment of all of sort of resource—monetary or other—and is therefore used to illustrate risk
- What does the phrase play the . . . card mean? [closed]
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