Long, obviously;- )
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I think that it is incorrect, because the phrase is “a ton of bricks”, and the spelling is part of the phrase.
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Meanwhile: she keeps on harking on about things?
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Trust you to hone in on that. Is it playing on your mind at all?
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Elsesite, someone is a tad confused;
‘I can swear like a navvy on shore leave when it’s required.’
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Presumably a navvy on shore leave is one who’s just been pressganged, so he’d be likely to swear quite a lot…
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An anathema. Grrrrr.
Itizz an powerful word/concept, mind.
Soo xx
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The hoi polloi will do it.
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Here’s another, to go with “partiality” instead of “partly”:
“singular” instead of “single”.
I mean in the sense sole or only, as opposed to remarkable. A singular event used to mean something out of the ordinary, or unusual; now it just means it was the only event that happened on that occasion. A singular aim would have meant a strange one; now it just means “the only aim”.
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I think that at the very least “my singular aim” implies that I am neglecting other aims that I should reasonably be expected to have.
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“Only” would be a better word, for that. Or “sole”.
“My singular aim” has a Dr. Phibes ring to it.
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“My only aim is to get the jewels out of the safe”
“My sole aim is to get the jewels out of the safe”
“My singular aim is to get the jewels out of the safe”
I think there is a shading of meaning there; to me, “singular” says that I accept I’m being unreasonable but there are other factors you don’t know about which make this the most important thing, while “only” and “sole” say that I don’t really care about other stuff. But that’s how I’d use it rather than any claim to a putative standard of correctness.
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If you said your singular aim was to get the jewels out of the safe, I would wonder why you thought that a strange objective. That or why these particular jewels were in some way undesirable, such that it was a bit unexpected for anyone to want them.
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‘escape goat’… I love the concept, but this is definitely not a typo ( see also ‘it’s a doggy-dog world’).
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Every goat I have ever known has been an escape goat to the core.
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A sort of caprine version of a getaway car, probably. I think I want one.
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I KNOW that I want one
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I am slightly boggled by a World Service advertisement for a forthcoming programme in which the lad in charge says it will “focus in on” a subject.
Why is it no longer just focus on it? especially since the subject is sight-correction apparatus.
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They’re conflating it with “zoom in on”?
(Incidentally, pan/tilt/zoom are three separate ways a camera can move. Pan is left/right; tilt is up/down; zoom is in/out by changing the focal length of the lens, as distinct from dolly which is moving the actual camera. “Pan up” is a nonsense. “Pan out” is even worse. “Dolly zoom” is what Irmin Roberts invented for Vertigo, zooming in while dollying out or vice versa, so that your main subject continues to occupy the same part of the frame but the environment seems to be distorted round them.)
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I bought some honey dew beer
It showed on the receipt as Honey Due
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