Asked | Open questions | Answered Points Date Pair Term / Answer given Level Status Gloss NP May 10 '19 eng>eng Book title "The Unknown Babylon" or "Unknown Babylon" Unknown Babylon pro closed no 4 May 5 '19 eng>eng old jungle saying it's a joke pro closed ok 4 Mar 22 '19 eng>eng brace a metal device for holding and compressing the body in a painful position pro closed ok 4 Mar 19 '19 eng>eng reticent at why did she say nothing (about her appointment with Sir Charles) at the time of his death? pro closed ok 4 Mar 11 '19 eng>eng catenary bangs a fringe cut in a curve that is lower in the middle pro closed ok 4 Nov 27 '18 eng>eng Collapse of stout party standard conventional punchline for a joke, associated with Punch magazine pro closed ok 4 Oct 29 '18 eng>eng throwing watery patches of color casting / projecting pale or attenuated patches of coloured light pro closed ok 4 Sep 22 '18 eng>eng Mis-draws pins with defects resulting from faults in the process of drawing the steel during manufacture pro closed ok 4 Mar 30 '18 eng>eng panegyric to, of or on pro closed ok 4 Oct 6 '17 eng>eng Burthen chorus, refrain of a song pro closed ok 4 Mar 2 '17 eng>eng rakah raka : ruler in early history of Java pro closed ok 4 Feb 24 '17 eng>eng odd impositions strange combinations / arrangements / sequences easy closed ok - Apr 5 '16 eng>eng cracking wavering, fluctuating in pitch, hoarse pro closed no 4 Mar 21 '16 eng>eng Swung them to the line set them to sniff around the area until they found the scent that identified the trail of the quarry pro closed ok 4 Mar 16 '16 eng>eng Please forgive me - if I need ya like I do OK (within this idiom) easy closed no 4 Nov 7 '15 eng>eng Louvre School of Armourers French royal armoury, supposedly located in the Louvre Palace pro closed ok 4 Oct 21 '15 eng>eng liquidy fuzz "fuzzy" environment of milk and fur pro closed ok 4 Sep 29 '15 eng>eng newsie whistle a loud, piercing whistle in the manner of a newspaper boy pro closed ok 4 Sep 23 '15 eng>eng Yeezy chin thrust and you could have a nice gig entertaing his bitches Mocking his self-importance by suggesting he is trying to emulate Kanye West pro closed ok 4 Sep 22 '15 eng>eng a steaming load bullshit pro closed ok - Sep 10 '15 eng>eng soil A garnish or element of the dish made to look like soil pro closed ok 4 Aug 1 '15 eng>eng ash-frail basket made of ash pro closed ok 4 Jul 4 '15 eng>eng upper shires of the range northerly counties of the range easy closed ok 4 May 9 '15 eng>eng picking up the thread of a familiar conversation continuing, after an interruption, at the point where they left off pro closed ok 4 Apr 22 '15 eng>eng make it work for you solve your problems, enable you to get what you want pro closed ok 4 Apr 21 '15 eng>eng the acts the performers easy closed ok 4 Apr 20 '15 eng>eng decimally rich see-notes C-notes ($100 bills) with lots of zeros on them pro closed ok 4 Mar 2 '15 eng>eng die storm the storm pro closed ok 4 Feb 27 '15 eng>eng who’d think to find you in a photograph, perfectly quiet in the arrested chaff from "Atget's Lens" by Nelson Bentley pro closed ok 4 Oct 11 '14 eng>eng to set up a halo to pretend or aspire to be a saint pro closed ok 4 Sep 27 '14 eng>eng if he want latitude if this planet (Saturn) has little latitude pro closed ok 4 Sep 7 '14 eng>eng church living vs benefice ecclesiastical offices with their associated revenues, whether or not "cures of souls" pro closed ok 4 Sep 3 '14 eng>eng he is not ill, but... it (the Sun) is not unfavourable / does not exert a bad influence, but (on the contrary)... pro closed ok 4 Aug 31 '14 eng>eng it imports their magazines it indicates (the extent and nature of) their provisions (especially provisions of arms) pro closed ok 4 Jul 30 '14 eng>eng lofty Noble, but also highflown and pretentious, with a suggestion of pomposity and self-importance pro closed ok - May 9 '14 eng>eng Poem of unknown origin (Anonymous) Arab poet, date unknown pro closed no 4 Mar 29 '14 eng>eng it squeezes him against his pledge of honesty it makes him strongly inclined to break his pledge of honesty, which becomes painful to uphold pro closed ok 4 Mar 26 '14 eng>eng Lowlands Obscure: derived from a ballad or song connected with the Netherlands? pro closed ok 4 Jan 20 '14 eng>eng disciplinary registers the types of language used in particular disciplines (fields of study) pro closed ok 4 Jan 3 '14 eng>eng not quite complimented by not altogether flattered by / not at all flattered by pro closed ok 4 Sep 14 '13 eng>eng ghetto-ass A very exploitative absentee owner of rented housing in poor neighbourhoods pro closed ok 4 Aug 16 '13 eng>eng wing of the dustbin an extension (of a building), here used humorously pro closed ok 4 May 15 '13 eng>eng clean-cut language clear / straightforward / lucid // limpid / pellucid / crystalline pro closed ok 4 Jan 11 '13 eng>eng type an ideal, representative example of a recognisable kind of person pro closed ok 4 Jan 10 '13 eng>eng touched to peace so moved or affected (by the scene and/or the situation) as to become calm and peaceful pro closed ok 4 Dec 26 '12 eng>eng not in strict character not strictly consistent pro closed no 4 Dec 25 '12 eng>eng bed in common share the same bed (that is, the sea) pro closed no 4 Dec 24 '12 eng>eng spectrally faded painted figures that have faded so as to become as faint as ghosts pro closed ok 4 Dec 22 '12 eng>eng tensing removing the blubber: probably variant of flensing (cutting-in) pro closed ok 4 Dec 19 '12 eng>eng Archimedes Archimedes' pro closed ok Asked | Open questions | Answered