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Lifter
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
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Location: Russia, Moscow
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 Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:45 am Post subject: Don't understand some expressions |
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Hi everyone. What does the following expressions mean:
1. by the day - it means day by day or what?
from song: It keeps getting stranger by the day
2. Keep it real
3. Is there any difference between "as it were" and "so to speak"?
4. live ammunition
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pugachevV
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:56 am Post subject: |
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1. Daily, or every day.
2. keep it practical.
3. No, they are equivalent.
4. Ammunition that has not been fired and so is still dangerous. |
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CP
Joined: 12 Jun 2006
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Location: California
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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"1. by the day - it means day by day or what?
from song: It keeps getting stranger by the day"
Can mean day by day, every day, increasingly over time.
"2. Keep it real"
A recent U.S. slang expression meaning to be straightforward, honest, or true--even blunt and aggressive--no matter what the consequences.
"3. Is there any difference between "as it were" and "so to speak"?"
No, not really.
"4. live ammunition"
Unfired ammunition, as opposed to blanks.
Yours truly, CP |
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