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- Bury vs. Berry The Proper Pronunciation Edition
In America growing up in the Midwest, I've always heard people pronounce the word "bury" as if it were pronounced sounding the same as the word "berry" Ever since I've noticed this many years ba
- Entry of bury ones head in the sand into English
1 How did the phrase "bury one's head in the sand" meaning "to ignore a bad situation hoping it will disappear" (coming from the misbelief that ostriches do this to hide from predators) end up being part of English? At what time did the idiom and perhaps stereotype enter general knowledge among English speakers?
- Bury — noun meaning? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
BURY: The amount of "bury" — that is, the depth between the mast step and the partners — must be determined Too little bury makes for a disproportionately large amount of leverage force that has to be absorbed by step and partners
- adjectives - Is there a word that means deliberately ignorant . . .
This is a cognitive bias tendencies to think in certain ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgment, and are often studied in psychology and behavioral economics When a person "deliberately" ignores negative information it is called an optimism bias or the ostrich effect When a person "deliberately" ignores positive information it is called
- etymology - What is the origin of the quote, “You can satisfy some of . . .
The actual quote is: You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time It is is most often attributed to Abraham Lincoln, but this is disputed: This is probably the most famous of apparently apocryphal remarks attributed to Lincoln Despite being cited variously as from an 1856 speech, or a September
- legalese - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
1 The idiom, to bury oneself in something, is recognized by the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs Definition: Figurative: to become very busy with something Example: She stopped taking phone calls and buried herself in her work This idiom is also recognized by: Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary Thesaurus
- What is the name of the tactic that politicians use to bury people with . . .
the use of "hook" is totally and completely wrong here it has absolutely no connection to what you're saying, regarding bloated or long-winded or off-topic argumentative technique
- To bury someone twice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The meaning of "bury them twice" isn't clear here, though perhaps it amounts to "cover the money twice"—that is, "double the bet " In any case, I haven't been able to find any reference work that includes "bury [someone or something] twice" as an idiom
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