... MEN S BUSINESS A toZ Men s Business A TOZ A simple guide to the genital and urinary systems of men their anatomy, symptoms, investigation, diseases, management, function and physiology ... INTERCOURSE SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES See VENEREAL DISEASES SEXUAL SADISM Sexual sadism is a psychiatric aberration that usually starts in males in their late teens and twenties, and sometimes persists ... in size between the two testicles An oversize testicle may also be abnormal due to a cyst or tumour Another way of assessing the testicles is to use ultrasound See also TESTICLE SMALL ORCHIECTOMY...
... women east-west-east Writing > We all need something to beheve in Discuss isms ' Ask students first to discuss which of the isms express some kind of belief Then they divide up the isms into three ... they then discuss questions 3-6 Use'questions 7 -12 as a basis of a short whole class discussion (they are designed as a preview to the reading exercise which should either confirm or discredit what ... exercises on the student 's page consist of a set of questions to discuss When these questions are preceded by an introductory reading passage they should not be treated as comprehension questions...
... mispronounced) aspirin (not asprin, as it is frequently mispronounced) assassin (not assasin or asassin) assma Wrong spelling See assume or presume? To ASSUME something to be the case is to take it ... become statements He ordered the thief to stop She told him to put his hands up The teacher yelled at the class to stop talking commas Commas are so widely misused that it is worth discussing their ... word in spelling quizzes (not absess or abcess) absence absent (not absc-) absolute absolutely (not absoloute, absoloutely) absorb absorption Notice how b changes to p here abstract nouns See accept...
... appearances E Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise Easier said than done What is suggested sounds easy but it is more difficult to actually it Empty vessels make the most ... consequences before taking action Loose lips sink ships Disclosing important information ( to the enemy or a competitor) could result in large losses Love is blind A person in love does not see ... who live in glass houses should not throw stones One should not criticize others for faults similar to one 's own Practice makes perfect Doing something repeatedly is the only way to become good...
... several security types Table Futures Mutual Funds Stocks Options Open Yes No Often Yes High Yes Closed end Yes Yes Low Yes Closed end Yes Yes Close Yes Yes (*NAV) Yes Yes Volume Yes Closed end Yes ... from A toZ Date 01/ 09 /19 99 Advancing Declining A/D Ratio 02 /15 /94 11 98 882 1. 3583 02 /16 /94 11 83 965 1. 2259 02 /17 /94 882 12 51 0.7050 02 /18 /94 706 14 11 0.5004 02/22/94 11 39 10 03 1. 13566 Top of ... Accumulation Swing Index attempts to show this phantom line Since the Accumulation Swing Index attempts to show the "real market," it closely resembles prices themselves This allows you to use classic support/resistance...
... variously; a sampling of variants: schemozzle, shemozzl, shimozzel, chimozzle, shlemozzl, shlemozzle, schlemozzle, schlemazel Its origin is in London racetrack cant The first l, and certainly the spelling ... express is a fast train A stopping train makes many stops at many intermediate stations street 3 51 store, n warehouse It is also used to mean a ‘shop,’ usually a large one Stores (n pl.) means ‘supplies,’ ... this sense, it is occasionally shortened to season, as in railroad station signs reading please show your season A season ticket holder is a commuter Season ticket can also apply to a series of...
... and baked sausage in batter toastip toasted sandwich tobacconist s shop cigar store Toc H See as dim as a Toc H lamp tod See on one s tod toff, n Slang swell Slang A distinguished person More ... term See Appendix II.F whole tone tongue sandwich, Slang Slang soul kiss too good to miss Inf See also miss out on Inf too good to pass up toothcomb, n toothful Inf A very small drink (of whiskey, ... 362 talent-spotter The term is applied mostly to small businesses, e.g shops and market stalls, and most often to the money taken in a single day s business talent-spotter Both terms used in both...
... Welliboots, n pl Slang Variant of Wellingtons rubber boots wellies See Wellingtons Wellingtons, n pl See also boot; snowboots; galoshes; Welliboots; wellies well-off, adj Welsh dresser, n Wendy house, ... course, zed-car.) See also jam sandwich; panda car zebra crossing pedestrian crossing A passage across the road, marked with zebra-like stripes The e is either long or short Once a pedestrian sets ... Commission works, n pl factory machinery operations A tractor works is a tractor factory But the roadside sign road works means ‘Men Working’; sewage works means a ‘sewage system’; and a spanner...
... garden walls, full of twists and turns crisps, n pl potato chips Crisps (short for potato crisps) are called potato chips in America The British shorten potato crisps to crisps British chips are French ... countries, to cry (something) up is to praise or curate s assistant 95 extol it To cry up one s wares, then, is to boast about one s products To cry stinking fish is to call attention to one s failures ... Thomas or the like call at stop at Both countries speak of vessels as calling at ports The British occasionally apply the same term to trains Thus one sees signs in the Charing Cross Railway Station...
... aforementioned restricted use of dessert in Britain, the British use dessert plates, dessert knives, dessert forks, and dessert spoons destructor, n incinerator detached house See semi-detached; ... town The term bedroom community means the same thing, in America Dorothy bag dosh, n tote bag Slang money doss, have a See have a doss dosser See doss-house doss-house, n Slang flophouse Doss ... meaning to ‘sleep in a flophouse’ but, less specifically, to doss down is to ‘go to bed,’ usually in rough, makeshift circumstances See also casual ward; have a doss dot, off his See off one s dot...
... n fish and seafood In Britain fish usually includes seafood, edible salt water shellfish fish, wet See wet fish fisher See bradbury fish fingers fish sticks fishing story, n fish story fishmonger s ... Slang lick (vanquish) Slang swipe Slang In Britain flog describes the hard sell, whether the insistent effort to dispose of goods or to press an idea Slang Applies to stolen or smuggled goods ... refers to any public sports field or sports meet gym shoes See also plimsolls sneakers gym slip (gym tunic) gym suit gym vest Old-fashioned T-shirt is far more common now See also singlet T-shirt...
... justice or a government agency heavy gang 17 1 Have you been served? Is someone helping you? Question asked by a salesperson (shop assistant, or simply assistant) Sometimes, Are you being served? ... Britain is nurse, sister, matron; and sister is applied properly only to a nurse of sister rank, but it is often loosely used to describe or address any nurse hostelry, n inn The shorter form hostel ... unpleasant task assigned as a punishment at school, like having to write, I shall not pass notes during Scripture 500 times impression, n printing Thus: First published January 19 68 Second impression...
... that was drawn in processions on vast carts and under whose wheels fanatics threw themselves in their ecstasy, to be crushed to death juggins, n Slang Synonymous with muggins See also git Slang ... quite synonymous with dressed to the nines See also dog s breakfast like old boots, Inf like one o’clock (Main stress on one.) Inf Sometimes it has the sense of ‘vigorously.’ Inf Does that suit ... use of tissue toilet paper lawk (s) ! Inf lordy! Vulgar Used jocularly by the upper classes Lawks-a-mussy is the fuller expression Law Lords, n pl see comment Members of the House of Lords who sit...
... statistic that goes into the imperishable archives To misfield is to be guilty of the blunder See chance missing See go missing mission, n Adolescent slang Inf a tedious task miss out on miss ... goods, denoting cotton textile wares such as draperies, curtain materials, bedspreads, and the like Signs reading simply manchester used to appear in some department stores See also draper s shop ... housing benefits Means-test is used as a transitive verb meaning to ‘apply a means test’ to someone, and meanstested as an adjective describing a benefit thus determined meant to supposed to...
... examinations: thus, O-level pass, A-level pass, etc See A-levels A pass degree is a lesser level of academic distinction than an honours degree See also class; first pass, v.t leave (a message) refer As ... because their names (Essex, Sussex, Warwick, Kent, Lancaster, York) suggest the dramatis personae of his historical plays Oxbridge is used as an adjective in such expressions as Oxbridge type, ... license to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises package store Sign on shop indicating it possesses such a license See under during hours The shop itself off-load, v.t Slang...
... existing shareholders Rights to shares are determined by the size of any investor s holding, and the shares are usually sold at a substantial discount to the current share price Rights issues are ... now See also rattling rise, n raise gain In salary On the stock market And a fall is a loss Some newspaper stock market reports list the number of rises and falls, rather than gains and losses ... losses rise, v.i adjourn The House (of Commons) rises for the summer recess or at the end of a session rising, adv Inf going on Inf Used only in expressions of age, as in she is sixteen, rising seventeen...
... refer to his shoes as his boots or to the process of shining them as blacking them nonetheless usually refers to the person who shines his shoes as a bootblack, although he sometimes calls him a shoeshine ... safe as houses, Inf perfectly safe assessor, n One who appraises the value of property in an insurance claim adjuster assistant, n clerk; salesman; saleslady Assistant, in this British use, is short ... appears in expressions like That s a lot of balls, i.e., stuff and nonsense Slang To make a balls of something is to make a mess of it, to louse it up A variant of balls in this sense is balls-up...