What kind of lawyers are "power lawyers"? What do they do more precisely? I found the term in a biographical work about an American president. Do they help the president and the first lady make the...
Hello! All deteriorated buildings in my city have to have a "red spot" near the entrance to show that they are dangerous in case of an earthquake. Are there any similar ways of signaling that a...
Hello, everyone! In Sherwood Anderson's book 'Winesburg, Ohio' (see link http://www.electronpress.com/freebooks2/winesburg_ohio.pdf), there is a short story in which some of the characters use a kind...
I am looking for a word in English which designates a person, usually a man, a tough guy, whose "job" is to recuperate money from those who do not pay their debts. This is not about bank...
How can the compound "fast forward" be used as an adverb? What would be its opposite? Can "slow backward" be its opposite if the context is poetic? What would be its corresponding...
In Chapter 26 from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Mark Twain uses the expression "Congress-water". The context of the dialogue in which it occurs is humorous and I am not...
There are moments when my (learned) English keeps being stubbornly opaque. I am trying to get the meaning of these lines by poet David Dabydeen: Heaped up beside you Old Dabydeen Who on Albion Estate...
The poem reveals three voices talking about the effects of hard work in the fields on their bodies. The poem reveals three voices talking about the effects on their bodies of hard work in the fields....
I was wondering what the etymology of this word is. Most dictionaries mention the Latin 'hybrida'. What about the Ancient Greek word 'hybris' or 'hubris'? What is the connection between the Latin...
What's the meaning of this opera title: The Three and the Deuce (1795) by Stephen Storace. Does it relate to playing cards or not? More about the musician here: Stephen Storace. My aim is to find a...
1. What's the meaning of the appelative Mas'r Davy in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens? (Ex.: chapter 46) How could Mas'r be described in a few words? Is it a mix of condescendence and lack of...
In what contexts can we use the expression 'she was caught', meaning that she got pregnant? Are there any other ways of expressing the same 'event'? (P.S. I'm not a native.)
How do you call the thing where the load (cars or fruit or any other products) is uploaded and unloaded from an airplane? Is 'landing stage' the right choice? Thx. (I'm not a native.)
I am trying to understand a line in a poem by W.B.Yeats, Second Coming. I can't quite get the meaning of 'the blood-dimmed tide'. What kind of tide is this? This is the beginning of the poem: Turning...
When somebody is described as 'power walker', what does it mean? The context is like this: ...he is a film and theater buff, a cricket fan, a badminton player, a devoted power walker and a voracious...
