English Manner of Speaking and Writing

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By the time it was over — three frazzling, agonizing, exhausting hours later — the feeling around the Brisbane Stadium was not so much delight or euphoria or even relief, but a sort of dizziness. Not vertigo from the heights that Australia have now ascended, but something closer to nausea, from the winding, coiling road that took the host nation up into the clouds.

-- Australia Outlasts France on Penalties, and the Host Nation Exhales (12.08.23), The New York Times, Rory Smith, Reporting from Brisbane, Australia

To Understand

“For examining God, religion, and myth as Spinoza would have it: not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn, but to understand.”

Bane

noun: bane; plural noun: banes 1. a cause of great distress or annoyance.Example: "the telephone was the bane of my life" synonyms:scourge, ruin, death, plague, ruination, destruction; torment, torture, menace, suffering, pain, distress, hardship, cross to bear, burden, thorn in one's flesh/side, bitter pill, affliction, calamity, despair, trouble, misery, woe, tribulation, misfortune, nuisance, pest, headache, trial, blight, curse, nightmare Example: "scurvy was the bane of seamen two centuries ago" Example: And there's three anomalies that I want to talk about. These are kind of like special cases. And they'll seem trivial for us now as we look at a really simple problem, but these could be the bane of our existence with large, realistic problems. 2. archaic something, especially poison, which causes death.

On-ramp

noun - a one-way lane for getting onto a main highway Example: You have to become very comfortable with summations and subscripts and understand how they work. We'll only use this notation to get started. This is the on-ramp, but this is what we're going to be doing going forward.

See also: on-ramp

Even so, on rare occasion I’ll be looking at one of my websites and I’ll realize that my Google Page Rank has…(wait for it)…INCREASED! This provokes an immediate happy dance, the likes of which I will not replicate for anyone, ever.

How to Increase Your Google Page Rank (Rule #1: Don’t Talk About Increasing Your Google Page Rank) | Claire Diaz Ortiz

So, without further adieu, let’s hop on to these 8 Magento extensions that have made way for eye-catchy and functionally strong e-stores.

Top 8 Magento extensions that’ll grow your E-store visitor count · jonese068 · Storify

I think you should maybe come from the room you must be locked in & have a look at the real world

Cutts Talks SEO ‘Myths,’ Says To Avoid ‘Group Think’ | WebProNews

I am at a loss here - the code to change the excerpt length works in my test child theme of Twenty Twelve

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Delwar Hossain, 70, of Rajganj Thana, said from the other side that he was meeting his younger brother after two years. “Today I also saw his (younger brother’s) granddaughter. Had the barbed wire not been there, I would have taken her on my lap. I can hardly find words to express my feelings.” The local people said that many living in the border areas had stayed on in India after the India-Pakistan Partition in 1947.

Rendezvous at the border - bdnews24.com

#structure #had .. been .. would have

All others who have jobs — bureaucrats, executives, CEOs, teachers, defence personnel — have mandatory retirement ages. The unique exceptions to this rule are politicians, who can hang on to their jobs ad infinitum, age no bar.

The 70-year solution by Juggle-Bandhi : Jug Suraiya’s blog-The Times Of India

#hang on to #ad infinitum #idiom

Rundown - A detailed report Example : Here's a rundown on/of the activities of our ten biggest competitors.

Conversation - Learn good phrases from daily conversation

German biochemist Otto Warburg showed that cancer cells have an outsized appetite for glucose. The glucose is broken down, yielding energy in the form of ATP, produced in the cell’s mitochondria, as well as components of amino acids, lipids and other compounds needed to build new cells.

Metabolic quirks yield tumour hope : Nature News & Comment

Violent thunderstorms cut a swath of destruction through the area, blowing down trees and damaging houses.

cut a swath - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

Did the missing Malaysian jet plunge into the ocean at a steep angle, leaving virtually no debris on the surface? Did it come in flat, clip a wave and cartwheel into pieces? Or did it break up in midair, sending chunks tumbling down over a wide swath of water?

Did the missing Malaysia plane spear-head into the sea?

#plunge into #come in flat #swath #tumbling down #cartwheel into pieces #description #word #idiom

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. — Ralph W. Emerson

Manner of Speaking | "All the great speakers were bad speakers at first." — Ralph W. Emerson

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