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What's the recommended way to refer to the September 11 attacks in formal writing?

word-choice phrase-usage

What is "being out of job for a personal reason" called?

word-choice phrase-requests phrase-usage

What does V.C. mean in this passage from Sherlock Holmes?

word-choice phrase-usage

What does the formation of putting words an idea or feeling given here mean?

word-choice phrase-meaning phrase-usage word-formation

Isn't it redundant to use "then" after "if"?

phrases usage phrase-usage redundancy

What this "he could chalk his billiard-cue with his knuckles" indicates?

What is "since before" without anything between these two words?

phrases phrase-meaning phrase-usage

"Upper bound on" vs. "upper bound of"

word-choice prepositions phrase-usage

Where is the verb in a "What about...?" clause

verbs phrase-usage subjects

Can say that "I over-ordered" food in a restaurant as a client?

idioms phrase-usage

What does a la carte mean as an adjective or figuratively?

word-usage expressions meaning-in-context phrase-usage figurative

"you would not be prepared to swear to me" Swear what?

What's the meaning of "that's saying a lot."?

phrases phrase-meaning phrase-usage

Is "under tension" a widely enough understood phrase to explain the presence of electric current? [closed]

Correct meaning of 'for the sake of brevity' [closed]

meaning phrase-usage

Is there an idiomatic expression to refer to an “ambush” journalist?

expressions phrase-usage

Usage of "take somebody to somewhere"

meaning-in-context phrase-usage

What does 'there's nothing to say that...' mean?

meaning phrase-meaning phrase-usage

Does "keep one's cool" come from Beat slang?

idioms phrase-usage phrase-origin

On the go - can it refer to something being consumed?

phrase-usage idiom-meaning