- word choice - Whats the difference between “bucket” and “pail . . .
Pail is completely synonymous with bucket, except in phrases such as diner pail, slop pail, oyster pail, kick the bucket, bucket brigade, bucket seat, bucket hat, etc
- What is the origin of the phrase beyond the pale?
Pale in this idiom comes from Latin pālus 'stake'; it means a fencepost, and by ordinary extension it also means the fence itselt, and the area it contains or delimits So beyond the pale just means "outside the boundaries" Normally, of course, the "boundaries" are metaphors for human activities, rather than referring to a physically bounded location
- word choice - What are these containers called for waste? - English . . .
There are so many ways to call these containers for waste (correct me if some of them might sound weird unnatural to use) garbage can, trash can, rubbish can, pedal can, garbage bin, trash bin,
- idioms - What is the origin of pale, male and stale? - English . . .
A short story by 'Saki' (H H Munro 1870-1916) is about a would-be poet, and quotes the line 'The stale pale elephants of Cutch Behar'
- Why is a jug of draft beer called a growler?
Sense 4 ["A pail or other container used for carrying beer, especially a half-gallon or gallon glass jug with a gasket or screw cap" derives from] the sound made by carbon dioxide escaping from under the lids of metal pails in which beer was carried in the past
- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The terms dinner pail, dinner bucket, lunch box, lunch pail, and lunch bucket all have some currency, per ngrams,, but dinner box much less so Dinner pail is found in euphemism for death "To hand in one's dinner pail", and in the 1900 campaign slogan of William McKinley, "Four more years of the full dinner pail"
- If my boat is sinking should I bale or bail the water out?
From various literary examples it appears that I should manually 'bail' out the water to keep afloat but the automated water removal system in my vessel is a 'baling pump' While there is this, I
- Flow Over Furniture stripping system (Lexington) $800
FOR SALE - Charlottesville, VA - Flow over stripping system is a very fast way to strip furniture The stripper is pumped from the pail through a hose to a
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