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'Calm, cool and collective' vs 'calm, cool and collected'
What is the difference between calm, cool and collective and calm, cool and collected? What is the meaning of collective or collected when used in this way? I checked the dictionary but still do ...
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"Call on" or "call at" or something else? Which is appropriate?
Which one of following sentence is correct? You can call me on my cell. You can call me at my cell. Or is there some other preposition? Or both are right?
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Where does the phrase "cool your jets" come from?
The OED says the phrase "cool your jets", meaning to calm down or become less agitated, is originally US and the first quoted in a newspaper: 1973 Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids) 29 Jan. 1/1 If you want to cool your ...
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etymology - What is the origin of "cool beans"? - English Language ...
What is the origin of "cool beans"? I know some sites (wiktionary) claim it's from the Cheech & Chong 1978 movie Up in Smoke, but I'm talking to people who remember it being used earl...
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word choice - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
You'll need to complete a few actions and gain 15 reputation points before being able to upvote. Upvoting indicates when questions and answers are useful. What's reputation and how do I get it? Instead, you can save t...
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conjunctions - "All but" idiom has two meanings? - English Language ...
Here's two ways I've seen the "all, but" idiom used: "Close all tabs but this one" (Any modern application with a number of tabs might have this as an option.) It means "close all the tabs, but no...
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word choice - What do you call the thing you get at the hospital when ...
When you break your leg or any of your appendages you get a binding, you know, the white thing to fix your arm or leg. What is that called? I find the words gypsum, cast and plastery in the dict...
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Where did the slang usages of "cool" come from?
I see and hear two general slang usages of cool - one meaning great (illustrated by a and b below), and one meaning acceptable/okay (illustrated by c and d). The following are Dictionary.com's four (
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What is the origin of "giving [it] the old college try"?
What is the origin of giving [it] the old college try? In particular, is it referencing an old ritual that might have percolated amongst alumni of the old and prestigious New England colleges/