Old words take on in each tongue a new and unforeseeable colour
— Abel & Marguerite Chevalley, in their introduction to 1934’s Concise Oxford French Dictionary
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Old words take on in each tongue a new and unforeseeable colour
— Abel & Marguerite Chevalley, in their introduction to 1934’s Concise Oxford French Dictionary
my hard nose, glass jaw, and soft heart
my hard nose, glass jaw, and soft heart
On groups of long-tailed tits (RSPB):
often moving line astern from tree to tree
…moments of stillness, when colour chords merge slowly, like a stone turned in the light
— Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone, ‘Messiaen’
hundreds of honey-bees
— BBC Radio 4 (context forgotten)
Hold for applause, hold for applause; slow umbrella, fade out.
(rhythm: dum diddy-dum, dum diddy-dum; dum-dumdumdum, duuuum dum.)
Overheard from Michael Jackson television documentary.
Fainting sofa: blackbird flocked.
Online catalogue, Urban Outfitters (US).
The pound slumped against a range of currencies…
— BBC Radio 4 news
form (n.)
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, eleventh edition.10. a hare’s lair.