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etymology - Meaning of go figure and its origin? - English Language . . . Go figure people—Scott Turow {fr Yiddish gey vays, "go know"} Notwithstanding the "contradictory or astonishing" language in Chapman Kipfer's definition of "Go figure," the example from The Nation seems very much in line with Ayto's observation that the expression is often "used to suggest that the conclusion to be drawn about something is
etymology - What is the history of the phrase figure it out . . . As Andrew Leach points out in his answer, there is a broadening in meaning of to figure out from to work out understand via calculation to its more general meaning This is similar to what happened with the verb to reckon centuries earlier The meaning becomes more figurative—wait, no, less "figurative" :-)
etymology - Origin of the idiom go south - English Language Usage . . . Higher; esp in north of (a figure, cost, etc ): higher than, in excess of Though north and south have related meanings (higher and lower, respectively), they are used in different ways North is usually used in respect to a give figure or amount
Period usage in Figures and Table captions [closed] The usage I'm most familiar with is "Fig 1: a figure" or "Figure 1: a figure" with a colon introducing the caption proper Note the full stop period used when "Figure" is abbreviated This is the output produced by many journal templates I've used (their LaTeX templates, which take care of the figure numbering style automatically)
Comma before as shown in Figure - English Language Usage Stack Exchange These constraints give rise to [a graph with three edges as shown in Figure 1] which implies that it is the three edges that are shown in Figure 1, rather than the (more usual) meaning that the graph is shown in Figure 1
tenses - Is this correct: Once youll figure out how this works, you . . . Once you'll figure out how this works, you'll love it What I am trying to convey is: The person that I am addressing does not understand a certain concept I want to tell that person that once he she understands that concept, he she will love it I am not sure about the tenses I am using Future Simple in both parts of the sentence Is this OK?
Do figure out and realize mean the same? [closed] I may realize that the Israel-Palestine conflict is not easily solvable while watching the news and reading articles (it just "clicks" in the head); on the other hand, I figure out what's wrong with my car by methodically going through a checklist of potential issues and eliminating each one systematically –
word choice - What is the neutral way of telling someone to do . . . Go ahead is something that I hear pretty frequently these days It mightn't be very formal, but it's not negative anyways From LDOCE: go ahead phrasal verb 1 to start to do something, especially after planning it or asking permission to do it: go ahead and do something I went ahead and arranged the trip anyway 2