Nov 17, 2016 · Blue: Should still be a dark colour, almost purple, and just warm. It will feel spongy with no resistance. Rare: Dark red in colour with some juice flowing. It will feel soft and spongy with slight resistance. Medium-rare: A more pink colour with a little pink juice flowing. It will be a bit soft and spongy and slightly springy.

Nov 17, 2020 · The chart suggests that rarest (red line) and rarer (yellow line) have been more popular (not popularer) forms than most rare (blue line) and more rare (green line) for at least 150 years. Nevertheless, given their consistent occurrence in published works over so many years, I wouldn't argue that any of the four forms is wrong.

Apr 10, 2023 · The entry on ‘blue’ as a noun defines it as lead, and for entries using ‘blue’ as an adjective, ‘blue film/movie’ doesn’t show up at all. Here is the full quote: blue, n. Lead: 1791, Sessions Papers of the Old Bailey, Dec., ‘I asked him what he had got there; he said, a bit of blue; that is slang for lead’; app. † by ca ...

Feb 21, 2014 · Blue Car Syndrome - a whole article there, but it's perfectly well defined in UrbanDictionary as... The act of seeing or hearing something and then suddenly seeing it everywhere. You buy a blue car, and suddenly you notice blue cars everywhere. Technically, as ermanen notes, it's a type of cognitive bias called the Frequency Illusion.

Aug 14, 2012 · Looking up the etymology of 'egad' I saw that it is an archaic, euphemistic form of 'O God' or 'Ye God.' I assume this was a one off evolution, and the 'how' was some idiosyncratic shift in the

Jan 21, 2013 · The nickname Blue for a redhead originated from the gold fields in the 1860s. An influx of Irish fellows - many of whom had red hair - were considered feisty - especially after drinking, and would be the instigators of fights (a blue). Hence the catch cry - "There goes a blue" - when a redheaded Irishman passed.

Jan 29, 2014 · It's very rare, but the letter -J does exist in the Italian alphabet. Don't forget there's a football club in Turin called Juventus, contracted to Juve, meaning "youth". The Italian J has a different pronunciation from ge similar to yu or iu "yu.ven.tus". List of J words –

This proves for clarity, you need to use 's to form a plural in rare cases. I learned the expression is "I am learning my ABC's and 123's in kindergarten." Mind your p's and q's means mind your pints and quarts which came from the Gold Rush days in saloons where bartenders kept a chalkboard tabulation of the pints and quarts ordered by ...

Jun 3, 2018 · Blue-sky thinking is the activity of trying to find completely new ideas. Some consultants are good at blue-sky thinking but cannot translate that into practical change. noun creative ideas that are not limited by current thinking or beliefs. Wiktionary defines it as: Noun blue-sky thinking (uncountable)

Mar 14, 2017 · The term watershed is often used for this. From Cambridge Dictionaries: watershed noun (BIG CHANGE) [Uncountable] an event or period that is important because it represents a big change and the start of new developments: