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Mar 27, 2014 · Senior Member. North Adams, MA. English USA, Northeast, NYC. Mar 27, 2014. #3. "You don't have a violent bone in your body" is a fixed phrase meaning "you don't have the slightest tendency toward violence." I don't think I've ever used it myself, but it's not unusual.
Aug 10, 2023 · Aug 10, 2023. #1. Context: Some people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius, who lived from roughly 551 to 479 B.C influenced the development of chopsticks. Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and ____ (be) too violent for use at the table. This is a grammar test from Chinese College Extrance Examination 2016.
Jul 12, 2011 · "Violent" is an adjective that can be applied to movies, books, poems, and even colors, as it is in this definition from M-W**: 3: extremely or intensely vivid or loud <violent colors> <violent noise> : unusually intense <violent pain> : unnaturally strong <violent passion> * Corpus of Contemporary American English ** "violent."
Sep 16, 2014 · Sep 26, 2014. #13. Person is sometimes (though pretty rarely now) used to mean "body." So "yield him up her person" means "give him her body" or "let him use her body," and the strong implication is that this means "let him have sex with her" or perhaps "let him do other things to her that may or may not include sex."
Aug 24, 2017 · Hi, Here is a part of story from 'The Fly', by Katherine Mansfield: "My son!" groaned the boss. But no tears came yet. In the past, in the first months and even years after the boy's death, he had only to say those words to be overcome by such grief that nothing short of a violent fit of...
Jun 13, 2022 · I couldn't believe that mild-mannered Papaw, whom I adored as a child, was such a violent drunk. His behavior was due at least partly to Mamaw's disposition. She was a violent nondrunk. (J.D. Vance, 'Hillbilly Elegy') Hello, there In this context, I would like to read disposition as attitude rather than character or nature/disposition, wouldn't ...
Feb 13, 2018 · English - England. Feb 13, 2018. #2. (something)-wise means in terms of that something. And violence-wise my hands are not the cleanest = And in terms of violence, my hands are not the cleanest. Oxford describes it like this: In modern English the suffix -wise is attached to nouns to form a sentence adverb meaning ‘concerning or with respect ...
Nov 1, 2015 · Nov 1, 2015. #3. e2efour said: You said yourself A criminal committed a crime. I did. Because it was a "first mention". But it's not the case in the definition where a specific crime is implied. They mention "a violent criminal", his/her profile. Hence, "the place where a crime was committed" becomes specific -- "the place where THE crime was ...
Oct 6, 2019 · The definition of "slay" in post #8 says 'to kill in a violent way', and "slay" is not a word you would use for capital punishment, is it, even if it is beheading with an axe? S1m0n Senior Member
Feb 17, 2018 · a violent attack or threats by one person against another person or by one country against another country. This is one definition of "aggression", but "invasion" is usually much more specific. The context is important. If we are talking about two neighbouring countries, for example, and one uses aggression against the other or they both use ...
