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Bookmark or Share- Why is damn a swear word while dang and darn aren't?Damn has religious connotations. It is wishing eternal suffering on someone (or, I suppose, something). Among people who consider casual blasphemy unacceptable, this is bad.
- What does "put someone on his/her back" mean?From this moment forward, I don’t want to hear your voice. I don’t want to see your face. And if I do, I will put you on your goddamn back. I suspect it is a figurative way of saying I will kill you, or maybe hurt you, but I'm not sure.
- meaning - "I don't give a rip!" What's a "rip"? - English Language ...-a good goddamn-a fuck (possibly even a flying fuck)-a shit (or two shits)-a hoot (or even a hoot in hell)-a tinker's damn/dam-a pair of dingo's kidneys or many, many other things. Many of them would probably not be said by a pastor giving a sermon!
- Should I use "did you" or "didn't you" in the following?For questions where you expect a particular response, you use the positive or negative version of the tag question depending on the main verb and use the opposite form to express the alternative possibility.
- What does homie mean? - English Language Learners Stack ExchangeI heard Leonardo Dicaprio saying about Kate Winslet, "She's my homie.". I wonder what homie actually means. I looked up the online dictionaries and discovered that it's a North American slang for a
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