Origin of "smooth operator" - English Language & Usage Stack …
2011年10月3日 · The phrase smooth operator starts to appear in the late 1890s. For example, in "The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason" , it says: Here, a smooth operator is someone who is "smooth" at running a business or set of financial operations (the senses from the earlier 1800s).
Usage of the adjective "smooth" - English Language & Usage …
2014年6月6日 · The popular song by Sade, Smooth Operator describes a man who is polished but insincere. A license to love, insurance to hold. Melts all your memories and change into gold. His eyes are like angels but his heart is cold. A similar term is slick. Smooth and superficially impressive but insincere or shallow
etymology - What is the origin of “I calls ’em like I sees ’em ...
2014年5月9日 · Origin of "smooth operator" 8. What is the origin and earliest recorded usage of 'cock-up' 11.
expressions - Other sentence for "smoothening the process"
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grammaticality - "Whether or not" vs. "whether" - English …
It's worth pointing out that, etymologically speaking, the roots of whether are which/either of two.It's inherently a "binary choice" word, so whereas "I don't know whether it be fish or fowl" is fine, "I don't know whether it be fish or fowl or good red herring" isn't really grammatical.
word usage - "Right from the beginning" and "From the beginning ...
2019年11月27日 · @nnnnnn There's more. The 'in the correct way' sense is certainly available, but not mandatory. The 'immediately' and 'exactly' senses converge here (if the 'in the correct way' sense is disregarded), 'guaranteeing' that the speaker means to start on the dot rather than the often pragmatic 'from the beginning ... or still in the starting phase, as soon after the true start as I can get round ...
pronunciation - How do you pronounce the << operator - English …
2017年5月23日 · The << operator (“put to”) is used as an output operator; cout is the standard output stream. The >> operator (“get from”) is used as an input operator; cin is the standard input stream. The type of the righthand operand of >> determines what input is accepted and is the target of the input operation.
word choice - When should we use "and" and/or "and/or"?
There is no official English: English is what its speakers make of it. That said, and/or is terrible English. It should be avoided, and people who use it should be made fun of.
Is there a word for left-to-right and top-to-bottom?
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articles - Using "the" before ordinal numbers - English Language ...
2010年10月21日 · When learning English I was told that ordinal numbers should always be used with "the" before them. But I often see that this is not always so strict, for example I heard the phrase "April first" i...