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2022-08-31 09:00:00 Clotted cream, noun.

Definition (British • mass noun): Thick cream obtained by heating milk slowly and then allowing it to cool while the cream content rises to the top in coagulated lumps.

Examples:

1. They serve clotted cream teas.
2. Other milk products are butter, dried curds, and clotted cream.
3. Spoon the warm jam over the slices of malt bread and add a dollop of thick, yellow clotted cream at the side of the plate.
4. Top with a spoonful of clotted cream and serve immediately.
5. Serve with clotted cream, ice-cream or, if you are watching your weight, a blob of crème fraîche.
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2022-08-30 20:00:01 People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, phrase.

Definition (proverb): You shouldn't criticize others when you have similar faults of your own.

Examples:

1. So people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, eh?
2. The shadow environment secretary said: ‘It's all very well criticising the failure of America to sign up to Kyoto, but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
3. Yes, it's an extremely derogatory term, and not one I would use myself, unless I'm angry of course, and even then I would feel uneasy (people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones).
4. One common test of abstraction is to explain what this means: ‘people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.’
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2022-08-30 09:00:00 Scone, noun.

/skɒn/

Definition: A small unsweetened or lightly sweetened cake made from flour, fat, and milk and sometimes having added fruit.

Examples:

1. But what I also found tantilisingly awaiting me behind the counter was a stack of freshly baked Russian tea cakes and lemon scones, both of which I purchased and consumed in startling quantities.
2. These are accompanied by all manner of sandwiches, scones and cakes piled onto tiered stands.
3. Diane made some scones and there was fruit and such.
4. The Caribou orange-currant scone is a scone without integrity.
5. No gentle reader, the raisin scone was the scone of the gods.
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2022-08-29 20:00:01 Every now and then, phrase.

Definition: From time to time; occasionally.

Examples:

1. I used to see him every now and then.
2. Only the occasional deadpan one liner leaks out every now and again.
3. Perhaps it's healthy to have a kick in the teeth like that every now and then.
4. The Chief Minister encouraged a little spoken of question that comes up every now and then.
5. The muse may crave a spot of deprivation and misery every now and then to spark the old imagination, but there are limits.
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2022-08-29 16:00:01 Muon, noun.

/ˈmjuːɒn/

Definition (Physics): An unstable subatomic particle of the same class as an electron (a lepton), but with a mass around 200 times greater. Muons make up much of the cosmic radiation reaching the earth's surface.

Examples:

1. The proton and the neutron are baryons; the electron, the muon, and the neutrino are leptons; whilst the pions are mesons.
2. These objects also produce high-energy massive particles such as electrons, muons, protons and anti-protons.
3. Comsic rays are very high energy particles which strike the Earth's atmosphere and produce spectacular showers of billions of electrons, muons, and other particles.
4. The number of times that an antimuon emits a positron in the same direction as its polarization was found to be equal to the number of times that a muon emits an electron in the opposite direction.
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2022-08-29 09:00:03 Likewise, adverb.

/ˈlʌɪkwʌɪz/

Definition: Used to introduce a point similar or related to one just made.

Examples:

1. The banks advise against sending cash. Likewise, sending British cheques may cause problems.
2. Club sides have to keep introducing young players from time to time and likewise, the national team also has to blood new talent.
3. Then the foxes, introduced in an attempt to eradicate the likewise imported rabbit menace, completed the devastation.
4. By lunchtime, she could introduce herself in Polish, and the children could do likewise in German.
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2022-08-29 00:24:47

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2022-08-28 20:00:01 Curiosity killed the cat, phrase.

Definition (proverb): Being inquisitive about other people's affairs may get you into trouble.

Examples:

1. Defending, he said: ‘This is a case where curiosity killed the cat.’
2. Stuffed as we were, however, curiosity killed the cat - and it very nearly took us with it as we recklessly agreed to share a devilled chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream.
3. I won't reveal any more of the plot than that, but if there's a moral to this story, it's that old truism that says that curiosity killed the cat.
4. Didn't your mother ever tell you curiosity killed the cat?
5. That's awfully mean of you to tease me like that - curiosity killed the cat, you know.
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2022-08-28 09:00:01 The Sure Thing (1985)

Your incessant complaining isn't doing us any good. Open / Comment