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- What is the meaning of the expression We can table this?
Related: Tabled; tabling That may be true for political jargon, but in every business meeting I've ever been involved with, to "table" something usually means the issue wasn't going to go away but that we were agreeing not to talk about it during the current meeting
- Tabled, US vs UK - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Ann had an idea We tabled her idea In the UK this means "We put this idea on an agenda so it could be discussed" In the US this seems to mean "We didn't have time, so we didn't put it on an agenda now We might sometime in the future " These are different (sometimes opposite!) meanings What's the etymology of these usages for each country?
- Origin of Turns the Table idiom
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- differences - Tables have turned or Tables are turned? - English . . .
'The tables are turned' is licensed by Usingenglish com and the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms 'The tables have turned' is quite commonly seen on the internet; it involves using 'turn' in the middle voice (so 'How the tables have turned' = 'How the tables have been turned' and is equivalent to 'How the tables are [now] turned', and is used as a variant)
- What does it mean: think “table” and not “kill?
The following is from Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers: Ultimately, learning launches need to result in decisions If you have tested key assumptions, you should also be
- grammaticality - Which is correct: the below information or the . . .
As a preposition, "below" would be written after "information" as a stranded preposition While typically prepositions would precede the noun, stranded prepositions can occur "in interrogative or relative clauses, where the interrogative or relative pronoun that is the preposition's complement is moved to the start"
- Word that includes laptop, tablet, smartphone etc
Although I agree with Brian Hitchcock that "portable electronic devices" is a much broader category than might be desirable for the range of devices that the OP is interested in describing, it (or its short form, portables) is the one that the computer magazines where I've worked have settled on to describe the relevant category
- synonyms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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