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For questions concerning expressions, word-plays, symbolic language, metaphors and the likes.
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Latin for 'at arm's length'
I'm trying hard to find a Latin expression for it, but I can neither trace any English translation from Latin that uses it, nor think of anything plausible that catches the idiom exactly. …
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A thing of flesh and blood
Jerome K. Jerome in the preface to his comic novel Three Men in a Boat tells us that his characters are not imaginary, but 'things of flesh and blood'. The best I can do so far is the phrase sunt natu …
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Expressing outrage
It's an English idiom, not to be taken literally, but used to express a burst of outrage or anger. …
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Did the Romans 'tip' for good service?
I need to refer in Latin to the modern practice of 'tipping' in return for good service. I am well aware of words and phrases for 'reward', which are essentially correct for my purpose, but I should l …
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