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Is it quit or quitted? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What is the correct (grammatical) simple past and past participle form of the verb quit? Is it quit or quitted? She quitted her job (She has quitted her job ) She quit her job (She has quit her
Can An ass that wont quit connote stubbornness? An ass that just won't quit is callipygian, not equine I have Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American slang open to won't quit: outstanding; great; truly beautiful It's hard to disprove a negative, but I simply cannot idiomatically read "ass" in your text as relating to stubbornness
Less aggressive synonym for left the company I am looking for a single word that you would use when someone has left a company This can be because the person quit, they are fired, retired, I was thinking about Discharged but that seems li
What is the proper usage of quite a few? Quite a few expresses that the speaker was impressed or astonished by the number, as they would have expected less Or the speaker wants to emphasize on the fact that it was "more than you would think" Yet I do not think that there is an order involved that quite a few would be less than many The intended effect is different One could call it understatement
phrases - Idioms similar to dig your own grave - English Language . . . 'Quit while you're ahead, you cheap skates!'" Within fifty years, however, people had begun occasionally using a variation on this expression that comes much closer to the sense that the posted question requires: quit while [one is] behind, meaning to stop making things worse by continuing to pursue a losing or failing course of action
What do you call a person who keeps on going despite setbacks? (in one . . . The song from the musical really sums it all up: someone who refuses to quit despite all hardship, someone who like the Eveready Energizer rabbit just keeps going and going and going and going The Impossible Dream (The Quest) To dream the impossible dream, To fight the unbeatable foe, To bear with unbearable sorrow, To run where the brave dare
grammar - Whats a word for stopping a habit? - English Language . . . When I quit smoking after twenty years of nicotine slavery, I told everyone that: I quit smoking at age 32 I went cold turkey on July 15, 1975 Another common phrase is to kick the habit, but it's usually used for addicitions to drugs other than alcohol, e g : He's been trying to kick his cocaine habit for years