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laden vs. loaded - English Language Usage Stack Exchange heavily laden: trees heavily laden with fruit A person can be described as "laden with grief", as HotLicks said in his comment In summary, laden is a very old word that is used in the US as a technical term in shipping and in a semi-poetic way, but not used for loaded cars
Does the Word laden Carry a Negative Connotation? But when used with other sentences, like, The banks are laden with debt ; Then laden carries a negative connotation, dictionaries describe "laden" as being burdened with something, so does it always carry a negative connotation? Just for the purpose of questioning its usage, what if one were to say, He came in laden with presents
Colourful Language with regards to swearing Why is expletive laden, or coarse language often referred to as being colourful colorful? Oxford Dictionaries define it, colourful 2 2 (of language) vulgar or rude ‘colorful words usually
Is “have the steel” an idiom in the statement, “Mitt Romney would have . . . I found the phrase “ have the steel ” in the following sentence of Time magazine’s article (April 30) titled, “Why Obama Owns bin Laden ” “Judging from the Republican response, President Obama's ad asking whether Mitt Romney would have ordered the raid that captured Osama bin Laden raises serious questions There is a kind of biographical line running between those dusty sparring
So which should it be - lock and load or load and lock? The Wictionary article on 'lock and load' attributes the modern beginnings of its popular use to a John Wayne film in 1949 The script writer at the time is presumably quoting from an instructor manual, dated 1940, which refers to dummy (!) cartridges, reference 3 of the article It is doubtful that the filmed quote refers to 'musquets' (sic) and their peculiarities, reference 1 of the article
What does “Bit it” mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I came across the phrase ‘ bit it’ in the quote from Washington Post’s William Branigin’s comment to support the Washington’s decision not to show the picture of the dead body of Osama bin Laden in Washington Post’s ‘Comment of the Day’ (May 4) It reads: Good, because showing that picture would be the U S lowering its standards for those that like and enjoy gruesome, bloody