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2. "Who are ya?" is a rhetorical question asking the other, lowly team to justify their presence at a match or level they don't deserve to play at. It's a mark of lack of repect to the other team. Yes, it's a fair assessment that it means to diminish the opposition as unknown and insignificant.
0. OED, rather than listing 'ya' as a form of 'you' and 'your', gives 'ya' (pronoun and adjective) separate entries with a distinct origin and etymology. In both cases, the origin is a "variant or alteration of another lexical item" ('you' and 'your') and the etymology is that they represent "a regional or colloquial (chiefly unstressed ...
This was show-biz parlance in the 1920s, and it referred to a show that closed quickly after opening. The most famous usage was by Variety (a show-biz newspaper) in 1929 after the stock market crashed: "Wall Street Lays An Egg"
Soccer is my favorite sport. However, I would say the soccer ball or the football or the baseball if I am referring to the ball itself. If there is a sport with a name that includes an article, then I suppose you would in that situation also use it, but I can't think of one.
@Snubian: It certainly is a fascinating topic. My personal theory on that (based on little hard evidence, but seems plausible) is that it's related to the use of strong insults between friends: with stronger language there is a 'bonding' effect where it is understood by both parties that the insult-calling is not serious, and that the social bond between the two is so strong that use of such a ...
1965 Glenn Warner, "Soccer Shot," in Soccer Anthology, edited by Alva C. Moore and Melvin R. Schmid ({Gainesville FL}: for the editors) 57: "Don't overdo passing when shooting territory is reached (bang away—you can't score if you don't shoot)"; the article i said to be reprinted from the Newsletter of the National Soccer Coaches Association ...
5. Both are fine options, but if we're being pedantic, they mean slightly different things. Asking somebody to explain something implies that you don't know anything about the topic and want the person to teach you. Asking somebody to clarify something implies that you understand the broad strokes but want more detail about a particular topic.
foot, on its own, can be used in the singular instead of feet. a. Viewed with regard to its function, as the organ of locomotion. In rhetorical and poetical use often (in sing. or pl.) qualified by adjs. denoting the kind of movement (as swift, slow, stealthy, etc.), or employed as the subject of verbs of motion.
14. TL;DR - 'guy' is not gender neutral. 'You guys' is accepted in colloquial speech to fill in the lack of a common subject in the second person plural. It is not acceptable to use that phrase in writing or formal speech. The word 'guy' is not gender neutral, let's start there. It very much only refers to the male gender.
14. “Ay-ay-ay” is an exclamation which entered American pop culture from Mexican Spanish in various ways. In informal conversation, the phrase means literally “ oh, oh, oh ” and conveys a sense of dismay. For example, in 1882, the popular song “ Cielito Lindo ” included this phrase in the chorus. This song was sung by drunk mice in ...