Jan 13, 2012 · Okay, well like I say, I don't think play cute has been much used for decades, and I doubt play/act adorable ever has or will be. Also I don't think there will necessarily be any standard expressions (slang or otherwise) that simultaneously cover both a girl acting coy to enhance her sexual attractiveness, and a kindergarten teacher using a ...

Apr 17, 2015 · English is my second language so there are a lot of new things to me. I just came across several sentences containing the phrases "play dead", "play sick" and "play cute" so I wonder if the verb "play" can go with an adjective. Is there any structure like that? Please explain specifically. Thanks. I really appreciate your answer.

Jun 25, 2015 · CUTE AS A BUTTON - "cute, charming, attractive, almost always with the connotation of being small, 1868 (from the original 1731 English meaning of 'acute' or clever). Cute as a bug's ear, 1930; cute as a bug in a rug, 1942; cute as a button, 1946. Cute and keen were two of the most overused slang words of the late 1920s and 1930s."

Sep 6, 2013 · Re-generalizing from one aspect of a specialized use is ill-advised. “Perceptive” would carry a more general meaning than what you've quoted, even inside an MBTI context (and way more general a meaning in any other context).

Dec 19, 2013 · And finally, J.S. Farmer & W.E. Henley, Slang and Its Analogues, volume 5 (1902) identifies several variants of quim—queme, quimsy, quimbox, and quin—but cites only three examples: Halliwell's "old play" from 1613, a ballad from circa 1707 (see the next section below), and Halliwell's dictionary comment on queme.

possible duplicate of What is the difference in meaning between "I play" and "I do play"?. I know there's a slight difference in that "...you ever did see" is a dated formulaic expression, but that's fully covered by @Peter Shor's answer here. Everything else is better covered by Colin Fine's answer to the linked question. –

Dec 6, 2023 · The word both is not reflexive; it's used for two people doing something individually, and not mutually doing something to each other.

The OED describes this usage as: cut and dried (also cut and dry): originally referring to herbs in the herbalists' shops, as contrasted with growing herbs; hence, fig. ready-made and void of freshness and spontaneity; also, ready shaped according to a priori formal notions.

Oct 8, 2019 · I'm creating a project on character traits, and the person that I'm writing about is funny yet serious. I didn't know if there was a word for that, so I'm asking for help.

Dec 30, 2015 · play on a quote. snowclone. paraphrasing. None of these answers are good. Trope, reference, and allusion are very broad terms. More important, they don't actually describe the act of slightly altering a phrase, and instead are describing the mere mention of a phrase. Snowclone is not correct because a snowclone describes a template based on an ...