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enough better, better enough, sufficiently better, sufficiently well, or well enough?

Idiom for premonition

Is there a term or phrase for a list of residents displayed at the door in a shared home?

Use of should in the sentence provided

Use of "the ill" vs. "the sick"

American English: which vs that [duplicate]

"high-reliable", "highly reliable", or something else?

Slang usage of "fish" meaning US Dollar.

"Tommyknockers": why the "tommy" prefix in AmE?

How do I ask a waitress to "wrap the rest of the food up" to bring home?

Why do Americans 'tell' you Good Morning?

Word to express surprised, but not surprised

What word do Americans use for dirt?

What would a 1940s audience have understood from the phrase "wired for sound"?

Is "meaner, minor things" a sensical phrase?

Meaning of "for the meek"

Different words for the personal pronoun “you” in spoken AmE: who uses which?

Equivalences between Australian English and American English

Use of can't/cannot to indicate the opposite

"And to you" or "you too"?