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- Is it quit or quitted? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What is the correct (grammatical) simple past and past participle form of the verb quit? Is it quit or quitted? She quitted her job (She has quitted her job ) She quit her job (She has quit her
- Alumnus vs dropout: Can you still call someone who chooses to quit . . .
If someone chooses to quit college, I can refer to that person as a “former” student of that college It therefore appears that I can use alumnus according to the definitions given for that term gi
- Can An ass that wont quit connote stubbornness?
An ass that just won't quit is callipygian, not equine I have Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American slang open to won't quit: outstanding; great; truly beautiful It's hard to disprove a negative, but I simply cannot idiomatically read "ass" in your text as relating to stubbornness
- Less aggressive synonym for left the company
I am looking for a single word that you would use when someone has left a company This can be because the person quit, they are fired, retired, I was thinking about Discharged but that seems li
- The origin of “go cold turkey” - English Language Usage Stack . . .
You can use other verbs with the phrase Go is the most common, but you can also quit cold turkey, or kick something cold turkey There may be others As to the phrase's origin, Etymonline favors the "quick preparation" theory and indicates there was a period of time where it was not associated with kicking a bad habit It also curiously Cf 's cold shoulder: cold turkey "without preparation
- You are too concerned with what was and what will be
Quit Don't quit Noodles Don't noodles You are too concerned with what was and what will be There's a saying: "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift That is why it is called the "present" Here, is the what an interrogative word or a relative pronoun? In other words, what does the sentence mean?
- phrases - Idioms similar to dig your own grave - English Language . . .
'Quit while you're ahead, you cheap skates!'" Within fifty years, however, people had begun occasionally using a variation on this expression that comes much closer to the sense that the posted question requires: quit while [one is] behind, meaning to stop making things worse by continuing to pursue a losing or failing course of action
- Whats the meaning of bitching? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What's the meaning of "bitching" in the following sentence taken from references in 'tfd com'? December: I quit bitching with grateful thanks for all the good times, things and friends God has pr
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