Anadiplosis This is another term from th
at repository of extraordinary expres
sions, the field of rhetoric. An example will make the idea clearer and to give it I call upon that fortune-cookie philosopher, Yoda from Star
Wars ... [Read the whole piece] Copper-fastened I’d not come across it before you wrote, but in origin it turns out to be a very close partner of a much more common figurative expression, copper-bottomed, meaning “thoroughly sound, genuine ... [Read the whole piece] Jeep You’re right to be cautious. An etymologist who recently investigated the matter concludes: “The word was coined in the full light of history, we have eyewitness reports (conflicting
as such reports always are) of the car’s ... [Read the whole piece] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
الحمد لله الذى هدانا بفضله لولا