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Bookmark or Share- Where did the phrase "batsh*t crazy" come from?The word crazy is a later addition. Scanning Google Books I find a handful of references starting from the mid-60s where batshit is clearly just a variation on bullshit (nonsense, rubbish) - which meaning still turns up even in 2001, but it's relatively uncommon now.
- What's the difference between "Mediary" and "Intermediary"?Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
- word choice - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeConsultancy is a noun while consulting is an adjective. Here are Oxford's entries: consultancy (noun) A professional practice that gives expert advice within a particular field
- word choice - Difference between "abate" and "bate" - English Language ...Bate. VERB. Falconry (Of a hawk) beat the wings in agitation and flutter off the perch: the hawks bated and immediately the breeze got in their feathers. NOUN. British informal (dated) An angry mood: he got into a stinking bate "Bate" obtains the meaning of "reducing the intensity of a force" as Shakespeare used it in Merchant of Venice.
- grammaticality - How can I explain to people that the phrase “off of ...1824 J. WIGHT Mornings at Bow St. 21 Two young men..were charged by a watchman with having ‘bother'd him on his bate,’ and refused to ‘go along off of it when he tould 'em.’ 1843 T. C. HALIBURTON Attaché 1st Ser. II. xii. 210 The groom has stole her oats, forgot to give her water, and let her make a supper sometimes off of her nasty ...
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