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Bookmark or Share- Asking a question "to", "from", or "of"?The person I was talking to said that the correct rule is "from". This seems quirky to me however. If you "ask X from someone", it means that you ask them to give you an X. So to me, whereas "asking an answer from" makes sense, "asking a question from" doesn't, unless you're asking for a question.
- meaning - What is the word or term used to describe a person who ...I'm always partial to the term "megalomaniac." It usually refers to someone who is actually in a position of power, flaunts it, and doesn't let others forget about it. But I see no reason it couldn't apply to a snobbish, undeserved sense of superiority, particularly if you're looking for an insulting or emotionally charged term.
- difference between "engage with someone" and "engage someone"?Engage with somebody means, as others have said, to interact with that person, usually from a position of greater power (managers are frequently exhorted to engage with employees, but rarely the other way round).
- What is the word for a person who never listens to other people's ...Narrow-minded (“having restricted or rigid views, and being unreceptive to new ideas”), small-minded (“Selfish, petty; constrained in thought, limited in scope of consideration, not mindful of the big picture”), and previously-mentioned close-minded (“unreceptive to new ideas or information; not open to any agreement”) are all relevant, as are some of their synonyms like hidebound ...
- Word to describe a person who has a lot of experience in a specific ...In fact, when you hear someone described as a "big muckety-muck" (big shot) it is a mid-western U.S. interpretation of the Yiddish "macha" or "big macha" - which is what we say in NY. Yiddish not only has a lot of great descriptive terms, but it's very onomatopoeic(?), so it easily becomes part of the lexicon.
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