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What does the phrase 'broth of a boy' refer to? What is the etymology of the phrase?

What is meant by 'fiddling'?

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Rubie
Student • 11 months ago

FIDDLING is an adjective that means petty or annoyingly trivial

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What does 'playing hooky' mean?

What is the origin of 'woof'?

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Rubie
Student • 11 months ago

WOOF came from the 19th century word meaning imitative. Woof is a barking sound of a dog.

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How did 'estate' come to refer to 'area of land or property'?

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Rubie
Student • 11 months ago

ESTATES has different meaning and one of it is an owned area of land in a country usually with a house. It may also mean as a class or order in a political body. Lastly, it may also mean as a state, period or condition in life.

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What does 'hot take' mean? What is the term's origin?

Do 'estrange' and 'strange' have the same meaning? In what aspect did they differ?

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Rubie
Student • 11 months ago

Estranged means a person who is no longer closed to you or alienated while Strange means a uncommon, hard to understand and a surprising way. It has no similarities at all.

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How did the term 'piggy bank' come about?

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Rubie
Student • 11 months ago

PIGGY BANK means a container for a persons saving. In old times, people use what is available to them and one of it a container made of clay which what they called pyyg / pyygy bank.

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What is the origin of 'stick to your knitting'?

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Rubie
Student • 11 months ago

The term stick to your knitting means sticking or clinging to what is familiar to you, related to you instead of going in to diversity, continue to be with what you have started.

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