dare+say
91remark — I noun animadversion, assertion, averment, comment, commentary, declaration, dictum, exclamation, expression, interjection, mention, note, observation, point, pronouncement, recitation, reflection, saying, speech, statement, thought, utterance,… …
92rejoin — rejoins, rejoining, rejoined (Pronounced [[t]ri͟ːʤɔ͟ɪn[/t]] for meanings 1, 2, and 3, and [[t]rɪʤɔ͟ɪn[/t]] for meaning 4.) 1) VERB If you rejoin a group, club, or organization, you become a member of it again after not being a member for a period …
93drink — 1. an intoxicant or to drink intoxicants The commonest euphemism for anything to do with intoxicants. Thus if a friend offers you a drink, you do not expect him to serve water. To like a drink is to have a perhaps modest alcoholic… …
94guess — I. v. a. 1. Conjecture, divine, surmise, suspect, mistrust, judge at random, judge with uncertainty. 2. Find out, solve, penetrate, fathom (by conjecture). 3. [New little used except in U.S.] Suppose, think, believe, fancy, imagine, take it, dare …
95suppose — verb 1) I suppose he s used to this Syn: assume, presume, expect, dare say, take it (as read); believe, think, fancy, suspect, sense, trust; guess, surmise, reckon, conjecture, deduce, infer …
96suppose — verb 1) I suppose he s used to it Syn: assume, presume, expect, dare say, take it, guess 2) suppose you had a spacecraft Syn: imagine, assume, (let s) say, hypothesize, theorize …
97providence is always on the side of the big battalions — Cf. 1673 MME DE SEVIGNE Letter 22 Dec. la fortune est toujours, comme disait le pauvre M. de Turenne, pour les gros bataillons, fortune is always, as poor Mr. de Turenne used to say, for the big battalions. 1822 A. GRAYDON Memoirs v. Heaven was… …
98a sow may whistle, though it has an ill mouth for it — The ‘Lord Granard’ mentioned in quot. 1802 was George Forbes (1760–1837), sixth Earl and first Baron Granard. 1802 M. EDGEWORTH Letter 19 Oct in Maria Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 10 He waddles on dragging his boots along in a way… …
99one wedding brings another — Similar to one funeral makes many, the idea in this case being that the social gathering of the bride’s and groom’s families and friends is likely to result in other romantic attachments. 1634 M. PARKER in Roxburghe Ballads (1880) III. 54 ’Tis… …
100Tangent — For the tangent function see trigonometric functions. For other uses, see tangent (disambiguation). In geometry, the tangent line (or simply the tangent) to a curve at a given point is the straight line that just touches the curve at that point… …
