Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007

I'm not able to tell which is the idiom or rule which requires the
presence of
"in" in:
"prophesying the more confidently IN that they themselves would ..."

My students were asked to translate a Chinese phrase into English. The
given answer is "culture equipment," but I am wondering if it really
fits the description. For your reference, the translated sentence in
English is like that:

Here's a winner of a new way of saying things. I just found this in a
medical article abstract:
"However, in stratified analysis, the OGG1 S326C variant genotypes in
***ever smokers*** (odds ratio, 0.74; 95% confidence interval, 0.56-

Capisce - What language is this word?  Meaning what?

"Update", literally, kinda. I'm moving the finishing line back?/forward?
seven days, so there's one week to go. Plenty of time! Thanks for the
entries I've received so far.
It might also be useful to mention that, as far as Q3 is concerned,

A friend recently told me this one-liner: "What do you get when you
cross a condom with a Torah?
Answer- A safer Torah. (in Hebrew, sefer torah refers to Torah scroll.)
This got me wondering if anyone knows any other bilingual puns.

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I'm looking for an expression. It can be used to express concepts like
"I have a room to myself
when the parents are away". The expression seems to contain a simple
adverb and a preposition.

Is "to make answer" a poetical and/or perhaps obsolete verb?
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I'm a native speaker of English, but I'm having trouble thinking of a single
word that means "what one has learned". In Chinese there's the word "xinde",
and Sacha Cohen coins the potentially handy (but as-yet improper) word
"learnings" in the title of his film ("Borat: Cultural ...

In a book about Bridge I found this advice:
'Don't play for the best result possible - play for the best possible
result.'
?? I guess one is abstract, and the other is relative, but which one

May I have such a great honor of your review on my thesis?
or
May I have such great honor of your review on my thesis?

 I am looking for a word or short/crisp phrase to describe such
situation:
 Let us say on the surface a man is glorious, beautiful, successful,
very popular, but in essence he is deeply illed, may fall down at any

This just has to be wrong ... Surely the "not" is a slip of the tongue
(or perhaps be substituted for "must"?

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