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Bookmark or Share- Explain the choice of the verb "dip" in "dip your lights"It seems that in the USA, the word has transformed to "dim." Moreover, people in the USA tend to think of the downwards-dipped beam as the "normal" one, and you then have "brights", "high" beam, etc. Physically this is completely incorrect; dimming lights would achieve nothing, you have to literally point them downwards, i.e. dip them.
- Where does the slang adjective “peng” come from?here's one definition of peng. Adj. 1. The best, great, excellent, often heard with reference to drugs. E.g."This weed is peng!"
- meaning - "Covered with" vs. "covered in" vs. "covered by" - English ...All three are in use, and the differences are subtle; but they do exist. "Covered by" generally means that the covering actually hides the thing that is covered: it would usually be an object (a sheet, a lid, a curtain) rather than a substa
- american english - Why does "to dip" mean "to leave"? - English ...The 1903 example, dipped into [the woods], could be paralleled with the French plonger dans [les bois] (plonger being more like dive, plunge), which remains common - but the French doesn't have this generic slang meaning for plonger. –
- Where did “Dipped in sh*t” originate from? What does it mean?"Well I'll be dipped in shit" was a line delivered to good effect by Slim Pickens in the 1967 film, "The Flim Flam Man," The movie was filmed in central KY, but the Greg Owns novel on which it was based was set in the NC lowcountry.
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