2021-12-26
Published: 2021-12-26Words that I added to Anki on 2021-12-26.
The contents were automatically generated except notes part.
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- toss aside
- conduit
- tenderfoot
- on the hook for
- cognoscenti
- capitalize on
- licit
- indivisible
- kick the bucket
- buy the farm
toss aside
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conduit
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- doublet of conduct
tenderfoot
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- tender (young, not tough) + foot
- plural tenderfoots (https://koki-yamaguchi.github.io/2021/12/03/flew-or-flied.html)
on the hook for
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cognoscenti
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- U.S. /kɒn(j)ə(ʊ)ˈʃɛnti/
- singular cognoscente
- Latin “cognōscō” (I learn) <- “con-“ + “nōscō” (I become acquainted with) (cf. sciō)
capitalize on
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- “to use to one’s advantage”, not necessarily with “on”
licit
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- the opposite of illicit (I know …)
indivisible
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kick the bucket
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- The beam on which a pig is suspended after he has been slaughtered is called in Norfolk, even in the present day, a ‘bucket’. Since he is suspended by his heels, the phrase to ‘kick the bucket’ came to signify to die. (from the OED)
buy the farm
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- often in form “bought the farm”
- buy the farm/ranch/plot etc.
- perhaps with allusion to the notion that a farmer whose farm is damaged by a military plane crash would be owed restitution by the government (from the OED)