Word group: potion without a cork
potion without a cork
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- Phrases
- Careless -- without worry
- without principles
- without or almost without hope
- without change, in every case
- without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
- complete and without restriction or qualification
- without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand
- making a statement or interpretation about something without evidence backing it up
- have room for; hold without crowding
- making predictions about the future as if they'll come true, without evidence backing it up
- moving in time or space without interruption
- openly straightforward and direct without secretiveness
- Sentences
- Paragraphs
- I wish she would stop being mean to me, but she doesn't seem to want to. I don't know why she is doing this, but it hurts me a lot. I just want to be able to play with my friends without her making me feel sad.
- an exceedingly long story with many details, often extraneous, that is finished without a clear punchline. A shaggy-dog story is funny because the listener has expectations that are not met at the end of the story. A shaggy-dog story is also called a yarn.
- Throughout the centuries people have explained the rainbow in various ways. Some have accepted it as a miracle without physical explanation. To the Hebrews it was a token that there would be no more universal floods. The Greeks used to imagine that it was a sign from the gods to foretell war or heavy rain. The Norsemen considered the rainbow as a bridge over which the gods passed from earth to their home in the sky. Others have tried to explain the phenomenon physically. Aristotle thought that the rainbow was caused by reflection of the sun's rays by the rain. Since then physicists have found that it is not reflection but refraction by the raindrops which causes the rainbows.
- Phrases
- cork