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Bookmark or Share- meaning - Is it "chalk it up to" or "chock it up to"? - English ...Grammarist & Our beloved StackExchange both say that the phrase "Chalk it up to" dates back to, among other things, debts being tallied on a chalkboard. However, when I hear the phrase "chock i...
- What does the idiom "If I didn't have bad luck I'd have none at all ...It's nonsense really, as 'having no luck' is used as a synonym for 'having bad luck'. It's tongue-in-cheek, and acceptable as such. It's just a wry way of claiming that you only ever get bad luck (whatever luck might be interpreted as). –
- Is the word 'dumb' offensive? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchangedumb adj 6 a : markedly lacking in intelligence : STUPID b : showing a lack of intelligence c : having little or no meaning — sometimes used in the phrase dumb luck. usage There is evidence that, when applied to persons who cannot speak, dumb has come to be considered offensive. From the Eleventh Collegiate (2003):
- phrase-requests idiom-requests - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeAn adjective used to describe such blind luck is fortuitous (there is also a noun fortuity). A single instance of blind luck is a stroke of luck. Although this does not coincide precisely with the concept you are trying to express, the word serendipity means "the luck of finding something pleasant when you do not expect it".
- meaning - Origin of "Plumb" to mean "absolutely" - English Language ..."plumb" as far as I know is a predominantly American usage, as in "That was just plumb crazy!" I thought plumb meant some kind of weight in bricklaying or such like, so how did it come to mean "
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