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... phrases , ( 2 ) should employ these words and phrases in their English mean- ings , and ( 3 ) should combine them according to the English idiom . What , now , determines whether a given expression is English ? Evidently , the answer to ...
... phrases , ( 2 ) should employ these words and phrases in their English mean- ings , and ( 3 ) should combine them according to the English idiom . What , now , determines whether a given expression is English ? Evidently , the answer to ...
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... phrase in common use . You are rather late . Can anything seem plainer ? Yet rather , as you know , meant originally earlier , being the comparative of rathe : the ' rathe primrose ' of the poet recalls it . We cannot say , You are ...
... phrase in common use . You are rather late . Can anything seem plainer ? Yet rather , as you know , meant originally earlier , being the comparative of rathe : the ' rathe primrose ' of the poet recalls it . We cannot say , You are ...
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... phrases because they " contain some word that is never used except as a part of the phrase , " 1 or to idiomatic ex- pressions because , " when analyzed grammatically , they include a solecism , " 1 the fastidiousness , in short , that ...
... phrases because they " contain some word that is never used except as a part of the phrase , " 1 or to idiomatic ex- pressions because , " when analyzed grammatically , they include a solecism , " 1 the fastidiousness , in short , that ...
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... phrases quoted ; but the phrases are universally understood , and there is no more reason for challenging the words that compose them than there is for challenging a syllable in a word . A similar remark may be made about idioms ...
... phrases quoted ; but the phrases are universally understood , and there is no more reason for challenging the words that compose them than there is for challenging a syllable in a word . A similar remark may be made about idioms ...
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... phrases . As phrases , they are facts in language : - " Welcome , my lord : I dance attendance here ; I think the duke will not be spoke withal . " 1 " Politicians who , in 1807 , sought to curry favour with George the Third by ...
... phrases . As phrases , they are facts in language : - " Welcome , my lord : I dance attendance here ; I think the duke will not be spoke withal . " 1 " Politicians who , in 1807 , sought to curry favour with George the Third by ...
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