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Ken, thank you. Yes I Googled it extensively but from bitter experience I have learned not to make up my own definition and so had hoped to get a few followups with a bit more nuance. Like Cartman, I too respect authority

Everyone knows snow falls in blankets. In an AP story Sunday, “...several inches of snow were expected to fall on mountain areas,” I pictured it falling one blanket at a time

Hundreds of hits but no definition

Thank you

Mel: Oh yes I am very much into the brew. Anyone else pse feel free to dalehileman@verizon.com

Phil: Thank you for your input but you have voted twice, once for 19 and once for 20

Ken--Excluded--I didn't even realize there were two kinds of between

This is going to sound like a silly question, but I am conducting a perfectly serious experiment (can’t tell you purpose of experiment because that would ruin it)

What is the most nondescript number between 0 and 61?

Thanks guys

Mistranslation is a big problem in ethnically diverse areas like mine, contributing in large part to the a lack of coordination between successive teams of the Home Depot crew replacing my roof. The preliminary team inspects the old roof and makes the estimate, when I give them any special instructi...

Mel: Everything is an illusion. The Universe is a hologram in the mind of God

My undying gratitude

Phil: Evidently German keyboards are different, but thanks kindly anyhow

Ken, I don't mind if you want to delete this, but if you'd let it stand for just a day or two I'd appreciate it greatly because I'm at wit's end with this problem, and I don't know where to turn God help Bill Gates when he gets to heaven, if that’s where he’s going. Owing to his absolutely massively...

Googling this phrase yields many hits but few definitions; as Google evidently isn't very good with idioms. Evidently it means naked, or in full view, in actuality or entirety.

Incidentally can anyone suggest a really good online site for idioms, esp phrases

Guys: Thanks for the distinction, that is, between "up for" and "up for it"; I shall be on the lookout for examples
However,wouldn't the same reasoning apply to the "enthuse" meaning in the original thread? Thus I say in response to your invitation, "Yes, thanks, I'm up for bowling"