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Latest Posts : Etymology / History
Hi all. I’m back after a long time. I just finish a short movie and you don’t know what a pain I had, writing the dialogues in English. Anyway, is there any other word than “abnormal” which is negated with prefix AB? Of course there are obscure words like “abnegate”, but I mean the words that one really uses.
Why are the colours flying in the idiom “to do something with flying colours”?
I’ve always been baffled by the idiom ‘’five o’clock shadow’. It’s one of my favourites. Can you tell me what it comes from and who coined it?
Does anyone know the etymology of the phrase: ‘’not enough room to swing the cat'’?
