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- word choice - At the beginning or in the beginning? - English . . .
Are both expressions "At the beginning" "In the beginning" valid and equivalent? The first "seems wrong" to me, but it has more Google results
- At Night or In the Night? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The bottom line is "it's idiomatic" as mentioned but I can offer the below rationale: 1 The origin of "at night" to indicate a point of time and the usage of prepositions "in" and"at" In olden times, when the time expression "at night" was originated, night might have been thought as a point of time in the day because there wasn't any activity going on and people were sleeping that time
- grammaticality - on the link, in the link, or at the link . . .
Which is the correct usage: Follow the instructions on the link mentioned above Follow the instructions in the link mentioned above Follow the instructions at the link mentioned above
- Origin of skin in the game - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The idiomatic expression to have "skin in the game" means to have incurred monetary risk by being involved in achieving a goal In the phrase, "skin" is a synecdoche for the person involved, a
- word choice - on the train or in the train? - English Language . . .
Being on the train has the sense of being aboard or being a passenger on a conveyance Being in the train has the sense of being a component member of the train Keep in mind that the word train refers to more than just railroads, and that a railroad train is something that comprises a group of connected cars and locomotive engines It is proper to say that the car you are riding in is in the
- Why is it on the inside and not in the inside?
The expression "in the inside" appears to be logical (because insides are closed spaces with boundaries) but the more common expression is "on the inside " What’s the reason behind this usage?
- word choice - In the hope of vs. with the hope of - English . . .
Both are grammatical There seems to be little difference in meaning, but a detailed corpus search might show that they were used in different contexts What corpus evidence does show is that in the hope is more popular than with the hope It occurs nearly four times as much in the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and nearly eighteen times as much in the British National Corpus
- What does it mean to shoot oneself in the foot?
The Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms says shoot yourself in the foot inadvertently make a situation worse for yourself; demonstrate gross incompetence The Free Dictionary online has Fig to cause oneself difficulty; to be the author of one's own misfortune I am a master at shooting myself in the foot Again, he shot himself in the foot by saying too much to the press The Chambers
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