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Bookmark or Share- Word or Phrase for Drinking Wine Glasses with Arms Intertwined"They entwined their arms and shared a wedding toast." O r shared any kind of toast. Intertwine would work but it seems excessive when speaking about arms. I see more than a single wrapping together with this word. Kind of like ivy trailing round and round something. Loop or hook their arms accomplishes the act, but these words are sort of not ...
- Why are apartment buildings called "Arms"? - WordReference ForumsArms (popularly, but not really correctly, called "coats of arms") are frequently used as emblems for such signs. One might see the heraldic emblems of the Duke of Norfolk painted on a sign, and that would be the emblem of a pub called the "Norfolk Arms."
- unrelenting vs. relentless - WordReference ForumsHi there, just wondering what the difference is between the following words" unrelenting" and "relentless". I've checked out the Cambridge Online Dictionary. The definition goes like this: unrelenting:extremely determined; never becoming weaker or admitting defeat relentless:continuing in a...
- trace something to/back to something | WordReference ForumsHello, On Macmillan Dictionary I came across "Many phobias can be traced back to childhood experiences." and "The bug was traced to a milk farm in Yorkshire." I think that "back" is used in the first sentence, because of the reference to the past. The person is probably an adult, teenager, etc...
- scissors, pants, jeans... are they really uncountable nouns?Having said all that, I have worked at a job in which scissors were a tool of the trade. As I remember it, we usually talked about "my scissors", but "a new pair of scissors". I'm not certain whether we would say "we need more scissors [multiple]" or "we need more pairs of scissors." I tend to think we said the former.
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