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4. The preposition is applying to the comfort, not to the location. So it would be: We ordered in comfort. (correct) We ordered at comfort. Another example: We sat in the light of the moon. Here it is hopefully more clear that you're talking about sitting in the light rather than in the moon!
3. "Comfort" can mean solace, the easing of grief, pain, and distress. The admonition means that when you're hurting, turn to your friends for help in easing your distress. It's very similar in meaning to "take comfort from." One difference may be that native speakers are more likely to use "take comfort in" rather than "from" when a person or ...
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4. Colloquially, the opposite of one's comfort zone is one's danger zone. Lots of hits for discomfort zone. @tchrist: The top hits seem to be for Jonathan Franzen's play-on-words title. "Discomfort zone" seems a better antonym than "danger zone". Just because one is not comfortable does not mean one is in danger.
We're trying to translate a psychological test and in its 30-some questions, there are three that are a little bit confusing, mainly because they translate to the same set of words according to our
According to Google NGrams, "lying in bed" is much more common. "To lay" is a transitive verb. It can be reflexive - "I lay myself", "I am laying myself", "I was laying myself" - but it requires an object noun. "To lie" by contrast is intransitive. It is an indicator of state, not action.
Run of House, or ROH, generally means you will be staying in a room decided upon by the hotel. In it's simplest form, ROH means you will get whatever room is available at the time you check-in.
I'd suppose that there are three types who use the word: (a) those who think it's part & parcel of the class of words that includes whilst, (b) those who think it's a better phonic fit for the sentence than is the form without an initial "be", & (c) the pompous & pretentious, who think it'll impress their audience because it's rather rare.
4 de dic. de 2014 · The word “committee” is a long and tedious one to type or write; I can easily understand the motivation to invent an abbreviation. When and why, though, did “ctte” become popular? What alternative...
1 de ene. de 2023 · Decrepit is the original spelling from French, decrepid appeared later, around 1600c, probably as a misspelling, but its usage gradually declined from the 19th century in favour of the original spelling. “broken down in health, weakened, especially by age," mid-15c., from Old French decrepit (15c., Modern French décrépit), from Latin ...
