2012年6月17日 · With everyone so indecisive, keeping the group going was like herding cats. You use the expression to refer to a failure of a collection of people to behave, or be led, as a …

These occur equally readily in either aspect - compare My leg hurts (where the non-progressive suggests a state) and My leg is hurting (where the progressive suggests an activity). – BillJ …

2014年10月16日 · To be hurting can mean, of course, the literal definition, which is experiencing physical or mental pain or suffering (TheFreeDictionary). Informally, it can mean some kind of …

If there is a reason you absolutely must tell them, be sure to precede it with something positive (and if there isn't a reason you absolutely must tell them, you probably shouldn't).

2015年5月19日 · @laurisvr, you asked for a word that means the whole phrase 'hurting of one's pride' and not a synonym for 'hurting', that is the difference. 'galling' means 'hurting=annoying' …

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2011年6月29日 · And here's confirmation from The Leisure Hour, 1879, that cats were used for womens' furs, but with a denial they were ever skinned alive: So, to answer your second …

One more colorful slang term I gleaned from the British movie I recently watched is slag. In the movie, it was used in curses like, "Fuck-ing dogs! Slags." "Right slag, that one." Now I know via

2016年3月2日 · Consider the case where a professor is erasing a board and one of the teaching assistant tries to help him by erasing part of the board.

2014年2月14日 · @weberc2 So have I, and usually the person forwarding said argument is a disingenuous bigot trying to fudge the issue and play the victim card that the big evil …