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7 mar 2023 · Mar 7, 2023. #3. PaulQ said: Yet stalking that gratitude, buried deep somewhere in the faint-anise-distant-licorice of the Diet Coke, and filling my lungs like every drag of every cigarette, there’s a nagging agony. The example is inverted: Even so, there’s a nagging agony that is stalking that gratitude, [the agony is] buried deep ...
7 sty 2022 · In The Old Man and the Sea by Hermingway there is the following sentence: When the wind was in the east a smell came across the harbour from the shark factory; but today there was only the faint edge of the odour because the wind had backed into the north and then dropped off and it was...
20 wrz 2012 · Senior Member. Russian & Dutch. Sep 20, 2012. #1. The writing is so faint that I can hardly read it. What does "faint" mean in this sentence? I have looked up faint here and the only definition that makes any sense to me is the first one. Is the writing difficult?
10 wrz 2006 · Sometimes we say we feel 'dizzy' when we are actually feeling 'faint', that is, lightheaded. In that case it means we feel like we might fall down for whatever reason, whether loss of balance in the vestibular system or low blood flow to the brain. To 'pass out' means to lose consciousness, but it is more colloquial.
30 wrz 2008 · Sep 30, 2008. #1. Hi everybody!!!!, I would like to know the translation of this expression; there´s a faint chance!!!! it could be something like "hay una remota posibilidad"? what´s the different between there´s a slim and there´s a faint chance... I think is so slight that I can´t get it.
28 sie 2013 · Aug 27, 2013. #2. Fainting is something that happens over a fairly short period of time. If she fainted and is still unconscious, you need to say just that - "She fainted, and she hasn't regained consciousness yet." In that case, though, you really can't say she's in bed "resting." I suppose someone who's unconscious is getting some rest , but ...
30 lis 2005 · Damn someone or something with faint praise: to criticize someone or something indirectly by not praising enthusiastically. The critic did not say that he disliked the play, but he damned it with faint praise. Mrs. Brown is very proud of her son's achievements, but damns her daughter's with faint praise.
11 kwi 2010 · New York. US English. Apr 11, 2010. #2. "On the first page of a story Joyce wrote at 22, an old man rambles of ''faints and worms,'' in what turn out to be yarns not of death but of the distillery; you may need a big dictionary to learn that ''faints'' are the last yieldings of the mash and ''worms'' are coiled pipes." (source)
8 maj 2008 · British English. May 9, 2008. #7. I agree with Viera; to faint 'dead away' means to lose consciousness completely rather than to feel just a bit faint and fuzzy. 1.
29 kwi 2017 · So faint had been the noise (so faint the nose was) that no one thought that the ship had been damaged. I know you found it in an exercise. What I want to know is if the author of the exercise is a native speaker of English or not, because a. is not the correct answer and 'so faint the noise was' is an unusual (or should I say antiquated) word order.
