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Cock and bull story" is an English-language idiom for a far-fetched and fanciful story or tale of highly dubious validity. It is often used to describe a description of events told by someone who is being deceitful or giving an excuse, perhaps unconvincingly.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
The English word dozen comes from the old form douzaine, a French word meaning ' a group of twelve ' ("Assemblage de choses de même nature au nombre de douze" (translation: A group of twelve things of the same nature), as defined in the eighth edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française).
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .
Kate attempts a bizarre new look for her cooking show which does not really suit her but Nick and Angela, unconvincingly, claim it was good, much to the Monsters confusion. Eddie then teaches them about the concept of lying, which soon leads to things getting very out of hand...
Numerous, local stories exist regarding the origin of the island’s name. Most of these folk etymologies concern horses — being grazed on the island, disembarked there (putatively to avoid import tax) or swimming to safety upon the island following a shipwreck.
These long screeds aren't particularly helpful. (That is to say, you're arguing quite strenuously (but unconvincingly) against what is actually an entirely unextraordinary statement—that a religious denomination has a ruling council.)--Jeffro 77 09:03, 11 January 2019 (UTC) I agree with Jeffro about the long screeds (my own included).
Albert Peterson: The central character of the story, a poet and former aspiring English teacher who was lured into the music business after penning a hit for Conrad Birdie. Peterson is neurotic, weak and easily manipulated by his mother. Rose "Rosie" Alvarez: Albert's secretary and long-suffering significant other, loathed by Albert's mother.