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Where does blah meaning idle talk come from? Bla! Bla! What absurd ideas some people have 1848 - The Santa Fe Republican (Santa Fe, NM) 15 Oct 3 4 Baby talk A few other early examples use "bla" to describe baby-talk, setting up the possibility that it was first used to describe meaningless talk from an infant and grew from that to refer to idle or meaningless talk generally
Why does blue blazes specify the color blue, and what is the origin . . . Blue has nothing to do with color in this expression, and everything to do with alliteration, as @HotLicks pointed out Blue blazes is just a more emphatic version of the euphemism blazes for hell Blistering blue blazes is just more of the same Taboo and euphemism don't work by the same rules as regular language
What to use for rain ? Set on, set off, set in, set down I saw this in an English Level Test I don't remember the complete sentence It was like, bla bla bla (here there was something I don't remember) really rain Three dots is where you will use one of the verbs on the title I wrote What to use for 3 dots in this case? What do other verbs mean and how to use them in a sentence?
punctuation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I assumed you would use dots to show left-out unnecessary text in a quote, such as in The definition of used oil is "oil that is xyz" The deleted portion is non-useful text that would confus
I will or I shall - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Possible Duplicate: When should I use ldquo;shall rdquo; versus ldquo;will rdquo;? I have learnt in school we should use shall with I, you and we But I often see people saying I will, you wi
meaning - What is the word or term used to describe a person who . . . The term I would expect to be used for such a person is prima donna : a person who thinks she or he is better than everyone else and who does not work well as part of a team or group (Source: Merriam-Webster) If instead, you want to emphasize her lack of regard of workplace order, I would suggest insolent : rude or impolite : having or showing a lack of respect for other people (Source