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2 de jul. de 2017 · 1. The usage of save in that expression means rescue. It's used when a situation is going bad and someone rescues it. If the situation wasn't fixed, your day would suck. So fixing the problem saves the day. – fixer1234. Jul 2, 2017 at 8:27. 1. There's a song name "Save the day" played in the Ghostbusters old movie.
17 de may. de 2022 · This is plausible but it might instead be intended as an actual diversion while the sniper moves position themselves; it's a bit hard to say from the brevity of the context but the use of the word diversion rather than something nearer to flushing suggests its purpose might not be to get the offender to move at all, but to fail to notice something else (the point of a diversion is to divert ...
14 de ago. de 2021 · What is the difference between 'to save money' and 'to spare money' ? I thought they both meant "(to try) to reduce your costs so that you can be left with more money".
22 de jun. de 2020 · 15. It depends if you are speaking about a "day" as a calendar date or a time period. We always say "on" a particular date or weekday, for example: it happens on Mondays. It's on the 4th of July. When we are speaking about a time period, we use "in" or "within", for example: it happened twice in 24 hours. it happened twice within an hour.
February 11 was really hectic, so I had to do a ton on the day. February 11 was really hectic, so I had to do a ton in the day. February 11 was really hectic, so I had to do a ton during the day. I am are that "in the day" may mean a specific stretch of time of 24 hours, and "on the day" may mean a specific date.
21 de sept. de 2018 · Miser: Clutching at every single coin and distraught over parting with any amount of money. "That old miser will freeze to death one day because he refuses to turn on the heat" (an insult) Stingy: Unwilling to part with money even to the point of flexing concepts of fairness. "She's a bit stingy, never willing to pay her share."
27 de abr. de 2016 · Let's say: I need to check my emails often, but they don't change every second and I don't want to sit in front of the computer all day. So I create myself an artificial interval, say 1 hour, and check the mail 24 times a day. "I check my emails 24 times a day, because my ... is 1 hour."
1. The phrase "knock on the door" typically employs "knock" as a verb, referring to the action of using one's knuckles to hit a door to gain the attention of someone on the other side. In contrast, "a knock at the door" uses "knock" as a noun, referring to the sound that is heard when someone hits a door with their knuckles.
22 de nov. de 2017 · 2. It is an idiomatic expression usually found when expressing the age of someone; used to say that someone is at least a certain age. If he is a day old (which is obviously true) then he is pushing seventy. If a day, if one's a day: Fig. a phrase attached to an expression of someone's age. She's fifty if she's a day!
9 de may. de 2022 · 1. The first example: I eat three tablespoons of molasses at most on a day. is not correct. Indeed the word sequence "on a day" is somewhat unusual, and is never used in a construction like this example. One might write: On a day marked by storms, Jane left home. On a day that would be long remembered, Japan attacked the US.
