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Bold-Faced Lie or Bald-Faced Lie – Meaning & Origin
Bald-faced = (1) shaved; (2) bold or brazen. Boldface = bolded text.
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Each other vs. one another
The conventional advice is to use each other for two people and one another for more than two people, but this advice is not consistently borne out, and there’s no reason we should follow it.
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Attain vs. obtain
To attain is to reach, achieve, or accomplish something. To obtain is to get something.
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Carrot, carat, karat, caret
Karat applies to gold (as a measure of fineness), and carat applies to precious stones (as a unit of weight, equaling 200 milligrams). A carrot is an orange vegetable. A caret is a proofreading symbol (^) used to indicated where something should be inserted. Some dictionaries list karat and carat as variants of …
