1. What does 'You are the man!' truly mean? When You the man! or you da man is used as an idiom what the Cambridge dictionary says is correct. If you are intending on using the idiom, …

2015年6月28日 · If you say "hey dude, check this out" you are definitely speaking to a good friend. If you were in a crowded location (for example grocery store, crowded street), you …

2020年7月12日 · I am but a common man. He is but a clever dog. I'd expected something like this: I am anything but not a common man. He is nothing but a common dog. (Side question, …

2016年2月9日 · Personally, I also experience "interference" from I feel for you. To me, that's a perfectly natural usage that means I have great sympathy for you [in your unenviable …

2023年6月9日 · @MariosAthanasiou, the Collins entry you linked to has definition 6: "If you say that a man is someone's man, you mean that he always supports that person or does what …

If you're worried about making a mistake with it, just keep your references to girls as "guys" to the phrase "you guys," and use gender neutral words for the rest. I think that in general that rule …

2024年3月14日 · An interesting topic. There might have been an element of class in Walker's definitions: a duchess can be handsome; her maid might be pretty. There may be some …

If you are contrasting adult male humans with sub-adult male humans, man is again appropriate: “He is a man now, no longer a boy.” But if you are contrasting male humans with female …

Note too that you can simply say "that was a meal" (often "now that was a meal") to mean pretty much exactly the same thing (again, good or bad). In these phrases the interesting part is how …

2015年1月4日 · F. 'You too' or 'And you too' or 'And to you too' but you can see where this starts to lead - we would end up saying the same sentence back to them. The first one is extremely …