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Jun 7, 2016 · London. British English. Jun 7, 2016. #5. " Two hundred years ago, teachers would punish lazy schoolboys with the cane." Appallingly, physical assault of children/pupils by teachers was banned in the UK only in 1986. Women face particular sanctions, including from cane-wielding patrols of vice police.
Feb 24, 2008 · Feb 24, 2008. #2. RedRag said: How come the word for "dog" is translated into apparently totally unrelated words, Because languages change over time. Note though that some of the words you refer to, RedRag, are not as unrelated to one another as appears at first glance. German hund and English hound are related to Latin canis and so to cane ...
Feb 27, 2006 · Feb 27, 2006. #1. Ciao a tutti. I have a question about the expression "fa un freddo cane." I understand that it's used in a figurative sense to indicate that the temperature is particularly low (for example, especially cold weather), but I'm curious about the manner in which one might translate the expression if one tried to translate it ...
Dec 17, 2012 · Dec 17, 2012. #4. I have heard them called "peppermint sticks," but my impression is that rather than being an AmE-BE difference, "peppermint stick" is just a slightly old-fashioned name for "candy cane." I'm interested to see if that impression is correct. "Peppermint stick" is actually sometimes still used in AmE to differentiate a straight ...
Jul 24, 2009 · Senior Member. Brittany, NW France. English (Midlands UK) Jul 24, 2009. #2. It's quite simply "sucking on the heads of their canes" i.e. the handles of their walking-sticks. Typical gesture of sophisticated nervousness in the 19th century.
Dec 27, 2008 · According to my specialised dictionary, 'Caned' means 'intoxicated' in British slang. 'To cane (it)' means: 1) To travel at great speed; 2) to overindulge in drugs or alcohol. A.
Nov 3, 2005 · A short explanation of "battered cane". (1) The blind beggar is carrying a long white stick (cane). It is "battered" because it has been much used and shows that use. Perhaps some of the white paint has been chipped off where the stick has knocked against things. (2) Lilittoune's battered cane is a walking-stick, carried by this person and used ...
Mar 6, 2015 · English-U.S.A. Mar 6, 2015. #1. The question I hear was, "Have you been weaning off your cane?" This means, have you slowly been getting used not using your cane so that you don't have to use it any more. My attempt:
Oct 31, 2021 · The title is general and is talking about the crop called sugar cane. That's why it's not plural. The same is true for any crop. Once you get into the production steps, it is talking about physical plants and how they are handled physically. That's a completely different context. Each cane has to be harvested.
Jan 17, 2009 · Spanish. Estoy traduciendo una cosa sobre ayudas para caminar, bastones. El bastón clásico de empuñadura curva (C cane), el bastón de empuñadura recta o "funcional", el bastón de cuatro patas (quad cane), y ahora llego al "hemi-walker cane", definido así: This is a combination of a quad cane and a walker. It is for persons with more ...
