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I'm not aware of any term specifically for an eatery that price-gouges / overcharges / takes financial advantage of its customers. In general terms, such a company could be called a rip-off merchant, sharks, thieves , or robbers. ("Don't buy anything from them. They're absolute sharks!") (A loan sha...

Here's a version with a built-in crap-catcher:

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I'd probably ask something like "What's my [phone] battery level at now?" or "How much charge is there in my phone?"

The best way to prevent that kind of thing is to watch YouTube in incognito / private viewing / stealth (etc.) mode, which will prevent the site from saving permanent cookies to your device. Alternatively, Phil, you could welcome the opportunity to embrace your inner Genghis. Tony, I think the answe...

On a different point entirely, the comment "you'd think I were Betty Draper" doesn't sound natural. It ought to be "you'd think I was Betty Draper". (For anyone who's wondering who that is, she was the uptight but somewhat neglected wife of the advertising exec Don Draper in the HBO series Mad Men. )

My guide: "What did you just call them?" Me: "Ah, yes, well ... That's what my dog, Sheba calls them ..." I wonder whether the guide also asked what Sheba calls cows and lambs. ----- This question came up once before on Wordwizard (see http://www.wordwizard.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3249). Of ...

Yes. "I don't want to spoil your [good] mood / upset your expectations" is the basic idea here.

I remember also coming across this form of address in a 19th-century novel when I was a kid (I'm afraid I no longer recall what the novel was), but I did not understand it then and have only been reminded about it just now. The American Heritage Dictionary lists the following definitions: 1. Rumor o...

Only 1) and 3) work for me, and of those two, 3) sounds very stilted.

In practice, most people would simplify it to "I have a student to teach swimming."

Or they would just go for 1) or A).

"He's in bed, [curled up] in the f(o)etal position".

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Fri May 03, 2019 3:53 pm

In the picture the man has the sleeping style like that because it's cold.

I can think of more effective ways of keeping warm. Some of them even involve blankets or other coverings.

According to this source , the context was as follows: "Then, challenged by Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Chair Sir Bernard Jenkin as to whether she would contemplate leaving the EU of her own choice without a Withdrawal Agreement, she used the following formulation of w...

Note: I’m surprised that no dictionaries I checked ever mentioned “legitimatize” as a synonym. Also, it seems like there is overlap between definitions 1 and 3. There does exist the verb legitimize, which I think is the most commonly-used verb that carries the meanings of 'to legitimate'. I agree w...

I take it to mean "the bill will be much more affordable [will be a lot easier] for me [on this poor soul]".

In this context, Schwarzenegger appears to mean that it would be acceptable for the people in the elevator to be sacrificed (by being attacked) if they were characters in an action movie.