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What is the origin of the idiom all the rage? - English Language . . . The word rage comes through French from Latin rabies, "frenzy, rage, madness" The English word apparently went from rage "vehement passion" to the fixed phrase the rage meaning "the latest fad"; then the expression x is the rage was intensified by adding all, similar to the way you can add all to other things, like x is all messed up
Friends that or who I consider my best friends 5 I have friends from all walks of life who that whom I consider my best friends In a sentence like yours, the usage of all three relative words ("who", "that", whom") are acceptable in today's standard English
Word to describe sitting in quiet anger - English Language Usage . . . As others have mentioned in the comments, the word that my dialect uses for restrained-but-hot-with-anger is Stew "We need to travel all the way to Montreal to pick up my sister," Mom says Dad sits back in his seat and stews "Fine," he says It's worth noting that this might be an Americanism MW provides the appropriate "be in a state of suppressed agitation, worry, or resentment", but
To put the copestone on something, meaning, literary synonyms On opening the little door, two hairy monsters flew at my throat, bearing me down, and extinguishing the light; while a mingled guffaw from Heathcliff and Hareton put the copestone on my rage and humiliation I suspect that it means "to bring to a maximum", but this is bound to be a somewhat crude approximation, if at all correct
An explanation of the preface in The Picture of Dorian Gray The nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass I've not a clue about this, all I know is romanticism was a movement and Caliban is a character in a Shakespeare play Any help would be appreciated, and if the tags are inappropriate I'm sorry
Is there a word for not thinking clearly because of anger? In such cases, most of the answers already given will fit (enraged, blinded by rage, apoplectic, and all synonyms) But if you are looking for a single word meaning "impaired reasoning caused by rage", I'm afraid there isn't any
Where did the term OK Okay come from? - English Language Usage . . . OK or okay {abbr of oll korrect, facetious alter of all correct} (1839) : all right My assessment Searches of the Google Books database and the Library of Congress Chronicling America newspaper database confirm that it is difficult to find a legitimate instance of OK in the sense of "all right" or "all correct" from before 1840
single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange A brief watershed period followed the introduction of the paint tube during which many artists found themselves adjusting to the new possibilities, after which landscapes were suddenly all the rage New techniques appeared and took root despite the numerous objections of some conservative critics