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idioms - What is the meaning of in the ether? - English Language . . . Ether, or æther, was the mysterious substance once thought to suffuse the universe and be the medium that propagated light (and radio waves once they were discovered) Before that, it was the material that suffused the realm of the Gods So, to say that something is in the ether means that it is something being communicated from place to place; it has no precise location, just as a radio
At or in the office? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In some cases "the office" means "the place where I work" which could mean a building or a suite in a building In other cases "the office" refers to a particular room The context of the answer depends on the context of the question
What does it mean to shoot oneself in the foot? The Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms says shoot yourself in the foot inadvertently make a situation worse for yourself; demonstrate gross incompetence The Free Dictionary online has Fig to cause oneself difficulty; to be the author of one's own misfortune I am a master at shooting myself in the foot Again, he shot himself in the foot by saying too much to the press The Chambers
word choice - on the train or in the train? - English Language . . . Both, but they are used differently Being on the train is the most common use When you travel by train, you usually say that you are on the train If you want to describe your position, you could say that you are in the train, for example: The train has derailed, I have a broken leg You can find me in the train
On Saturday afternoon or in the Saturday afternoon? The choice of prepositions depends upon the temporal context in which you're speaking "On ~ afternoon" implies that the afternoon is a single point in time; thus, that temporal context would take the entire afternoon as one of several different afternoons, or in other words, one would use "on" when speaking within the context of an entire week "In ~ afternoon" suggests that the afternoon is
At Night or In the Night? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The bottom line is "it's idiomatic" as mentioned but I can offer the below rationale: 1 The origin of "at night" to indicate a point of time and the usage of prepositions "in" and"at" In olden times, when the time expression "at night" was originated, night might have been thought as a point of time in the day because there wasn't any activity going on and people were sleeping that time
When to use “in the last year”, “last year” and “in the past year”? In the last year, last year, in the past year How do such things come into being? We may assume that the beginnings were something like this: When was it? - That was in the last year Then you may assume that this was shortened to: That was last year The omission of self-evident "in" does not change the meaning Then "last year" alone can be used as an adverbial group in a sentence So "Last