Jun 23, 2015 · Tips on can be followed by gerund/relative clause/noun (location)(topic) Tips for can be followed by noun (topic) (purpose)(duration)(recipient)/relative clause/gerund/ Thanks for any help clearing this up for me.

Sep 26, 2010 · Yes, the first statement is a "natural" construction. And yes you can use the second statement instead. It wouldn't impact your formality in a big way, and it's not impolite, though all things being equal I guess you could say it's slightly less formal or polite because it contains slightly less polite hedging.

When you say "the tips of my fingers", you are referring to the individual tips of each finger. A possible usage would be "I felt a tingling in the tips of my fingers". However, when you're talking about a more metaphorical something that's just within reach, you would use "the tip of my fingers", since you're referring to all your fingers ...

Feb 22, 2015 · Fingertips appears to have originated in the United States in the nineteenth century. Nathan Bailey, Dictionarium Britannicum, or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1736), has this version of the expression: To have a Thing at one's Finger's Ends. To be very apt at a thing; to know it perfectly well.

Sep 28, 2022 · Tricks, meaning circumstances, one’s life. (backformation from colloquial greeting how’s tricks?. 1930 [US] E.H. Lavine Third Degree (1931) 162: About an hour later, the sergeant came along and asked him how tricks were.

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Oct 1, 2016 · I too, believe that the expression of the word vender is more to the noun person,rather than place or thing and the word vendor more Latin in its origin ,for its same meaning , however there is possession in it for place or thing .I could see how you can say vender is person and vendor as thing or place! just saying!!!

Feb 25, 2012 · Agreeing with chessmath and choster, I'd like to add a few cents of my own. User documentation may refer to subject matter i.e. Project, Team, Test, System, Administrative, Marketing or Miscellaneous types.

Apr 23, 2015 · "Deez Nuts" may be ultimately derived from Dr. Dre's album, Chronic, or merely juvenile silliness. But in 2015, the expression was popularized, or repopularized, by a viral meme created by Instagram user WelvendaGreat.

Sep 22, 2010 · Thee, thou, and thine (or thy) are Early Modern English second person singular pronouns.Thou is the subject form (nominative), thee is the object form, and thy/thine is the possessive form.