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- Why are detectives investigators referred to as gumshoes?
Why are detectives inspectors colloquially referred to as Gumshoes? Is it anything other that they would travel a lot in investigations and, presumably, wore hard-wearing shoes?
- Where did the term gumshoe come from? [duplicate]
When someone refers to a detective or police officer, they sometimes use the term 'gumshoe' Where did this term originate from?
- What do you call the white haze that covers cough lozenges?
The lozenges get cloudy Here’s an example of this expression: After two years, the cough drop begins to look cloudy, it becomes softer and stickier, loses shape and begins to "flow into the cracks and crevices" of its wrapper, a Warner-Lambert spokesman says Gumshoe Gathers Evidence In Case of Cloudy Cough Drops
- What do you call someone who asks many questions?
I am looking for a word meaning "a person who asks many questions", with positive connotations (one who is curious about things, which is good) Preferably a noun The word preferably should be
- Origin of the phrase stone cold loser - English Language Usage . . .
From "The Donald's Private Dick: Did Trump Put a Gumshoe on a Times Reporter's Trail?" in New York magazine (2005) [combined snippets]: In a peculiar act of media criticism, Donald Trump is telling people that he hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on Times reporter Timothy L O'Brien, according to a source in Trump's office
- Compound noun with completely different meaning
I am looking for a compound noun that has a meaning that is completely (or very) different from the words it is derived from This because I want to give an example of how powerful the human brain
- What do you call someone who is conducting surveillance
@Tuffy, if you think that gumshoe is a good alternative answer, why don't you post it as such? (I don't think that it is, because it is limited to certain kinds of surveillance, but then the same is true of a couple of other answers, which did receive some upvotes )
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