... 5. Which sentence is correct? A. No take photographs. B. No taking. photographs. C. Don’t take photographs . D. Don’t to take photographs. 6. I go to school _______ bus. A. a B. the C. an D. ... university B. in a department store C. at a travel agency D. in advertising 22. Her ambition is _______ . A. to sell cosmetics B. to travel all over Europe C. to learn another European langu...
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Automotive term. See also Appendix II.E.
slap, adv. Inf. right
Inf. Examples: slap through is right through; slap into is right into. To walk slap into
someone is to bump into him. Now ... can be applied to any situation.
2. Inf. To put on side is to put on airs, put on the dog.
3. A billiards term, synonymous with spin. In this usage, to put on side means to
put Eng...
...
something is to dig into it, that is, to pack in a hearty meal. See also tack; toke.
tumble to catch on to
Inf. To tumble to a concept, a hidden meaning, etc. is to grasp it, catch on to it, get ... in.
ton, n. See Appendix II.C.1.g.
ton, n. 100
Slang. The expression the ton means 100 m.p.h.’ Thus the proud owner of a
motorcycle says, It can do the ton. Ton-up, as an adje...
... feathers to young
men not in uniform. The taunt of cowardice was expected to shame them into
enlisting. This practice was revived during World War I. To show the white feather
means to ‘betray ... a prototype of small city architectural
horror and cultural provinciality. To come from Wigan is to be a small town hick, like
one’s aunt in Dubuque.
wigging, n. Inf. dressing-down...
... up; put together roughly
To cobble something, or to cobble something together, is to put it together roughly.
A professor in a hurry will cobble a lecture together. This verb is used also to mean ...
means to ‘keep changing’ (e.g., to keep trading in your car for a new one). To chop
and change, used intransitively, means to ‘shilly-shally.’ To chop in (a variant of
chip...