2019年9月10日 · "Well I'll be dipped in shit" was a line delivered to good effect by Slim Pickens in the 1967 film, "The Flim Flam Man," The movie was filmed in central KY, but the Greg Owns novel on which it was based was set in the NC lowcountry.

2016年7月31日 · The 1903 example, dipped into [the woods], could be paralleled with the French plonger dans [les bois] (plonger being more like dive, plunge), which remains common - but the French doesn't have this generic slang meaning for plonger. –

2012年7月28日 · I dipped into my emergency fund to pay for my plane ticket. …or to experience superficially, e.g. I'm going to dip into that new novel to see if I might like it. A usage like "dip into a stall" makes me think that the speaker was accidentally mixing the phrases duck into and slip into.

It seems that in the USA, the word has transformed to "dim." Moreover, people in the USA tend to think of the downwards-dipped beam as the "normal" one, and you then have "brights", "high" beam, etc. Physically this is completely incorrect; dimming lights would achieve nothing, you have to literally point them downwards, i.e. dip them.

2021年11月19日 · The winds blew up, her bow dipped down Oh blow, my bully boys, blow (huh) Or in the title and text of Blow, my bully boys, blow, for which I have trouble finding the lyrics currently, but there is a record of it in the Library of Congress from 1908. Then there is Bully Boys, here in a version by Alan Doyle. I'm not actually sure if this is an ...

All three are in use, and the differences are subtle; but they do exist. "Covered by" generally means that the covering actually hides the thing that is covered: it would usually be an object (a sheet, a lid, a curtain) rather than a substa

here's one definition of peng. Adj. 1. The best, great, excellent, often heard with reference to drugs. E.g."This weed is peng!"

2015年7月15日 · Possibly also "breaking" can be used when it's curling over and dissolving as described in the definition and once they've hit the shore and are no longer waves, the waves have already "broken" but yes, it's not perfect which is probably why "gently" and "on the shore" is included in the example to provide the rest of the context such as strength of break and where.

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2011年6月22日 · To confirm your suspicion: "Into this clear space the sun dipped, and as the lower limb neared the horizon the optical illusion of the disc turning pear-shaped was well seen." Western Morning News, 1927. –