2011年6月5日 · The meaning of the expression Red Ball as a synonym for high priority coming from the railroad industry has been covered by some answers already. As for the use in the criminal investigation area, wikipedia identifies its origin as the book "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets". " Red Ball " is police slang for a high profile case that draws media and political attention. It was ...

The term deadeye means (informal, chiefly North American) An expert marksman Oxford Dictionaries Online (There is an apparently unrelated sense of the term referring to a specific type of nau...

2024年2月14日 · What does the word "hooky" mean in the phrase "play hooky" (skipping class/truancy) and where did it come from?

In formal usage, it should definitely be is: Neither of these options is available. This is the traditional rule (iirc, Fowler’s discusses this at length). However, in colloquial usage, either option is fine, and are seems to now be somewhat more common, at least on teh internets. A commenter here nicely describes the sort of thought process which probably pushes people (usually ...

2015年10月13日 · There are no special rules for capitalizing the word "state" in ordinary, non-technical English. It should be capitalized when at the start of a sentence, or when it is part of a proper noun. The state (3) of affairs is that the State of Washington (proper noun) is a state (2) within the sovereign state (1) known as The United States of America (proper noun).

2021年1月25日 · In a column that appeared in the Columbus (Ohio) Citizen (Nov. 26, 1927) and was quoted in American Speech (Apr. 1930), Billy Evans wrote that "I gave it the old college try" is a term "often used in big league baseball, when some player keeps on going after a fly ball, usually in foul territory, with the odds about ten to one he would never ...

2012年11月15日 · thusly Misused for thus. • Because this was described as school shootings and thusly presented as gender neutral, the gendered nature of the killing and shooting was ignored. USE thus. • Thusly the Pagans treat their Idols, and …

2016年1月5日 · Dope is a rather new slang word that is used to define someone or something excellent, great, impressive. OED says that it is originally in African-American usage and chiefly among rap musicians and

2014年6月15日 · I have heard people from Lima, Ohio refer to green peppers as mangoes. How did that come about?

2013年1月8日 · You just have to memorize it. For instance, most state universities in the USA don't use "The" in the title, but a few do. For example, we have Oregon State University, Oklahoma State Univeristy, and The Ohio State Univeristy.