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Oct 22, 2021 · Vietnamese. Oct 22, 2021. #1. From "This is how you lose the time war": A glass jar of water boils in an MRI machine. In defiance of proverbs, Blue watches it. I don't get what this is supposed to mean. My only guess is that the previous sentence must be a reference to some kind of proverb, thus creating a contrast between that and Blue's action.
Sep 16, 2011 · SevenDays said: This may help: bite one's thumb [gesture of insult or defiance] insert the thumb nail into the mouth, making it click against the upper teeth upon release (Romeo and Juliet) bite one's tongue stay silent, repress speech (Henry VI parts II, III). Shakespeare's Words by David Crystal and Ben Crystal, p.
Aug 18, 2010 · Not quite defiance. If you're hoping for something, there is a chance it won't happen, so the likelihood of it occurring is expressed in "odds". Odds of 2 to 1, for instance, means something is twice as likely not to happen as it is to happen. Something with odds of 100 to 1 is very unlikely to happen indeed.
Jun 27, 2019 · Jun 27, 2019. #1. When the adjective (participle) is used at the end of the main clause, ıs ıt clear that which noun is described by that participle? 1- Snarling, the cat attacked the dog. (Describes the cat.) 2- The cat attacked the dog snarling. (Describes the cat adverbially .) 3- The cat attacked the dog, snarling.
Aug 11, 2013 · IMHO a universal phrase (but it is not a conjuction) is "in defiance of the fact that". In Czech: "na vzdory faktu, že" (vzdor = defiance); the quasi-conjunction přestože (= přes to, že) has the same meaning but is shorter and has only one stress. In defiance of the fact that the movie is silent, the actors seem to jabber constantly.
Dec 2, 2012 · It means the fact that children are defiant constitutes a problem. Now imagine there were an adjective used only to describe children whose defiance constitutes a problem. Then imagine that adjective in comparative form. "More (of) a problem" expresses that comparative without forcing us to come up with an actual adjective with that meaning. If ...
Oct 9, 2007 · Despite of Despite/In spite of their insistence that he should appear when there is an important event, he usually sends a representative. "Despite of", alone, without «in», is incorrect English. But unfortunately it is used equally with 'despite'. Proper English only would use 'despite in both your sentences'.
Dec 8, 2008 · Dec 8, 2008. #1. Je cherche un équivalent en anglais à l'expression "Je ne vous retient pas". When someone say something you don't like, you say this, as "You don't have to stay". It's not just a proposal, there's a kind of defiance in the tone too. "If it's that you think you better leave". Any ideas on that?
Nov 9, 2021 · Archie is saying that he does not know that this sort of personal matter could have an enormous bearing on the investigation into his wife’s disappearance. This is an act of defiance on Archie's part, a challenge to the superintendent. The repetition of "sort" appears to be coincidental. The two uses do not appear to be related.
Mar 29, 2007 · Mar 30, 2007. #9. I'm not sure if this is only an American English usage (possibly not used in British English), but it's very common to say things like, "fall off the table," "throw someone or something off the roof" (okay, maybe that particular phrase isn't so common, but simply because there isn't that much of people being tossed off roofs ...
