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Is there a word for "the occurrence in real life of something that is ordinarily only a figure of speech." Example, seeing a blind person leading another blind person down the street -- "the blind leading the blind." Thanks in advance.
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Weekly Themes
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Can't say my familiarity with Latin goes very far. I had already found another list but it looked like my worst nightmare and I dared not mention it. It's o v e r w h e l m i n g. Crushing. all of it Someone's real labor of love.
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60th anniversary would be sexgennial. Jocular words like these (see this list) assume a familiarity with Latin. I still remember fondly my hometown's sesquicentennial in 1973 and then a few years later a professor noting the sesquimillennial of the f
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I don't think it's dictionatical if it isn't in any dictionary. It is based on the structure of quindecennial. Not to mention undecennial and duodecennial.
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Though I congratulate Anu and AWAD heartily on their sixteenth anniversary the relation between 16 and the given words is pretty loose. Also none of the online dictionaries give a life sign for the word sexdecennial, which at first sight I interprete
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Since stumble-bum Ernest McNorb Had so many rules to absorb, His first try at football Outside our Cheroot Hall Saw his chin strap meet up with a forb. DRAMA - DRAWING ROOM
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Aha! Then it is either: I >> R TERRA or I >> H EARTH And we'll need another clue to tell which is correct! Either way, my clues and word will still work out (which, in itself, is another clue)
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The word is not 'rated'. I should have given the hint. Spoiler Content
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The college paid time and a half For a lazy researcher on staff He'd slurp on a noodle While petting his poodle As they awaited a new nomograph FOOTBALL - FORB
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I >> E RATED Clue: Change one letter to arrive at... "The limerick writer's inspiration (though all are not amused)" Hint: Spoiler Content Answer: Spoiler Content
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Q&A about words
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Steenth is (or was) a financial term meaning 'one-sixteenth of a point'. Dunno if it's still used since they've gone to metric in quoting stock prices,
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Bilden is the German verb for 'to form; educate; build'. So a Bildungroman is an 'education novel'.
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You're welcome, you did the work yourself. It's a pure German word, but I see it's in all the dictionaries. I only knew the word Bildroman so far, which is not in the dictionaries.
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Add an "S", perhaps that will give some added clues. SONGWRITERS
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Thanks for taking the time to look it up. 35 States and DC celebrate it. I know we do with a parade and some orations and the like.
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Juneteenth It is a portmanteau of June 19th, the day in 1865 on which slavery was abolished in the State of Texas (link).
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We also have "Juneteenth" celebrated here. Don't know when it is, either, and really don't care, but it uses the "teenth".
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just remembered it. thanks. For example, tom sawyer or catcher in the rye would be perfect examples of what a "BILDUNGSROMAN" means.
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there is a single word that describes a story or a novel in which the protagonist undertakes a journey of self-discovery, and becomes victorious at the end. Can any one help out? For example, tom sawyer or catcher in the rye would be perfect exampl
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I got two wrong anagrams before I got IRATE. Clue: The chapter rated the most relevant was the one that made the reader fear the worst.
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@ Jackie: Here are the two hidden clues-within-the-clue for changing "arial" to "lariat:" WinthROP Educated me in the singuLAR: I ATe my words
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How do I know if I'm on the right TRAIL Spoiler Content
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I would have never got lariat. Thanks Jackie. May I take this forward? LARIAT Clue: Eating crumbs made electra ill yet she insisted on following hansel and gretel. Spoiler Content This is fun!
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Huh--I googled Winthrop but found no relation to LARIAT. ?
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I think this could be a good game. Let's keep it up. The word is... ARIAL Clue: Winthrop educated me in the singular: I ate my words Hint: Spoiler Content
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