cadge
To beg or get by begging.
To beg or get by begging.
Brit. a collection of unimportant objects.
To disturb by repeated attacks. To trouble persistently from or as if from all sides. To make a surprise attack on: maraud, raid.
A valve that regulates the flow of fluid through a pipe; a faucet.
A walk taken regularly for one's health.
Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account last week:
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'Check off each block when you hear these words during a meeting, seminar, or phone call. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, stand up and shout BULLSHIT!!'
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(used with singular count nouns) colloquial for 'not a' or 'not one' or 'never a'.
Wide-hipped riding pants of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.
William Fortnum ('Fortnum & Mason') started business re-selling Queen Anne's discarded candles (she wanted fresh ones every night).
Isla Guy Fawkes is one the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador) named after the Briton who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot.
The O2 has a hole to let the Blackwall tunnel ventilation towers through.
Belfast City Airport is named after [...]
Nocturnal, solitary, tree-dwelling mammal (family Bradypodidae), found in South and Central America.
So tonight I was coming home from work, totally absorbed by the book I'm reading (A Spot of Bother), I got off the train and walked along the platform to the exit, instinctively. A gesture you don't think about because you repeat it every day.
Most people were walking the opposite direction, so I realised I [...]
Air France, said the reservation. And the check-in counter, and the boarding pass.
And the crew's uniforms at the gate. One of them looked at my boarding pass, then projected "Le six" across the queue to her colleague entering boarding pass numbers into a machine.
So imagine my surprise when the terminal bus delivered me in front [...]
To approve, encourage, and support (an action or a plan of action); urge and help on. To urge, encourage, or help (a person).
A heavy, stale atmosphere, especially the musty air of an overcrowded or poorly ventilated room.
I owe you an explanation, don't I?
Weeks without a proper post on these pages, apart from Word of the Day, My Week on the Web and sometimes 7 Things I Did Not Know Last Week.
Not a lack of time per se, but rather a shift in priorities.
A new position at work that's briliant and absorbs [...]