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Little old lady: A harmless and helpless older woman; innocent and pitiful older woman. (see " adorable " above) Lolita : A term for a sexualized minor child, typically a girl; the term has pedophilic connotations and is often used to fetishize or exploit vulnerable preteen girls.
Older people will stop being told they are “overqualified,” the timeworn excuse for passing up the wisdom, skill and enthusiasm a person with a few wrinkles in their skin can bring to a workplace.
A 26-year-old's viral video about Gen Z "aging like milk" spawned a thousand think pieces. However, one expert argues that physical aging shouldn't be this generation's main concern.
A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).
German – Wenn Schweine fliegen können! is identical with the English saying "when pigs fly", although the older proverb Wenn Schweine Flügel hätten, wäre alles möglich ("if pigs had wings, everything would be possible") is in more common use, often modified on the second part to something impossible, like "if pigs had wings, even your ...
Millie Bobby Brown has hit back at critics who accused her of “looking old” in her latest Instagram post.. The 20-year-old actor took to Instagram on Monday (December 30) to share a new mirror ...
A Dictionary of Similes is a dictionary of similes written by the American writer and newspaperman Frank J. Wilstach. In 1916, Little, Brown and Company in Boston published Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes, a compilation he had been working on for more than 20 years. It included more than 15,000 examples from more than 800 authors, indexing ...
Donald Trump, 78, has claimed that Barack Obama, 63, is “exhausted” and “looking older” – hours after the Republican candidate pulled out of yet another campaign event, amid growing ...