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- Is it quit or quitted? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What is the correct (grammatical) simple past and past participle form of the verb quit? Is it quit or quitted? She quitted her job (She has quitted her job ) She quit her job (She has quit her
- Alumnus vs dropout: Can you still call someone who chooses to quit . . .
If someone chooses to quit college, I can refer to that person as a “former” student of that college It therefore appears that I can use alumnus according to the definitions given for that term gi
- Less aggressive synonym for left the company
I am looking for a single word that you would use when someone has left a company This can be because the person quit, they are fired, retired, I was thinking about Discharged but that seems li
- The origin of “go cold turkey” - English Language Usage Stack . . .
You can use other verbs with the phrase Go is the most common, but you can also quit cold turkey, or kick something cold turkey There may be others As to the phrase's origin, Etymonline favors the "quick preparation" theory and indicates there was a period of time where it was not associated with kicking a bad habit It also curiously Cf 's cold shoulder: cold turkey "without preparation
- Can An ass that wont quit connote stubbornness?
An ass that just won't quit is callipygian, not equine I have Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American slang open to won't quit: outstanding; great; truly beautiful It's hard to disprove a negative, but I simply cannot idiomatically read "ass" in your text as relating to stubbornness
- What is the proper usage of quite a few?
Quite a few expresses that the speaker was impressed or astonished by the number, as they would have expected less Or the speaker wants to emphasize on the fact that it was "more than you would think" Yet I do not think that there is an order involved that quite a few would be less than many The intended effect is different One could call it understatement
- Vulgar slang equivalent to Breaking someones balls
busting my balls There are a couple of alternatives that are less vulgar but still informal The most tame is simply quit giving me a hard time quit busting my chops (most of the other items there are about exerting great effort, rather than 'giving me a hard time') quit yanking my chain (most of the others are about literally pulling some
- You are too concerned with what was and what will be
Quit Don't quit Noodles Don't noodles You are too concerned with what was and what will be There's a saying: "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift That is why it is called the "present" Here, is the what an interrogative word or a relative pronoun? In other words, what does the sentence mean?
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