use Grammarly, WriteLabs or similar addons for firefox and chrome. :
https://thewritelife.com/automatic-editing-tools/
https://freesiteslike.com/free-sites-like-grammarly/

 

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Or, if you're the crab master, they will also scuttle for you.

Sure! leo.org

Things come for you in your sleep. Wether they crawl to, scuttle towards, sneak up on or weasel is irrelevant imho. You're asleep after all and you don't care how the monster gets you in the end.

 

Since this thread is about usage n' whatnot, I should make a correction.

Whoops, that should have been "your first try..." not "you're first try".
Imagine, having to quote myself just to show I'm a todger..

 

... vs. "right on the money" vs. "spot on" vs. "on the money"
In my interwebs
&
In print

I'll show myself out...

 

"spot on" vs."dead on, balls accurate"

 

Sorry buddy, I am always getting sidetracked.

It means to make an assumption, or to get ahead of yourself by presuming what someone will do. For example. Two people just met, he says to her I ordered us a cab to be there at 8, so be ready, and she might say to him, "whoa you're being a bit previous, ain't ya?" because he is presuming she's going out with him again!

(It's a cockney thing rather than pure English, but it's still used occasionally, innit) <<notice the innit, That's my favourite one

 

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People just get that all upside down :P

 

I know ya got crawly right early on in your post, and you probably know this too, but for others, Crawley is the place near Gatwick Airport

 

It came AT me. (COME AT is a phrasal verb meaning to move towards somebody as though you are going to attack them.)

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, Babe.

English English and American English. Degree in writing. Studied English all my life.

BUT: Credentials don't mean squat. (See Dylan quote, above.)

If the insect is a demon, then perhaps it came FOR you.

Give a reader freedom to imagine how it moved. The nightmares of a reader will surpass the words you write.

 

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Good enough for a Nobel prize in Lit tho

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/dylan-lecture.html

 

Damn right! Real beats "proper" every time.

 

That's right. Crabs walk (sideways)..

 

What can I say, I guess I'm just a juan in a Cotillion.

 

*IN me. ALL OVER me. It comes in colors everywhere, it has no hair, it's a Cardisoma armatum.
nvrmnd, disregard, just daydreaming...

 

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Factoid: Cardisoma armatum is a crab:

This name derives from their aggressive nature as adults and when being shipped to pet stores, they are often packed in soap dishes to prevent them from killing each other -- which, of course, does not apply to anybody here.

Good one, Lambchop. Bravo.

 

I cheated, all the credit belongs to https://www.google.com/search?q=rainbow+crab :D

 

"" American English speakers are secondary, but still are very welcome.
Other Europeans with English as native, secondary language, Australian are at the third place, but still are welcome. ""

aaahhhh .... the smell of segregation in the morning.

 

A man in a restaurant asked the waiter,
"Do you serve crabs here?"
"Certainly," replied the waiter,"We serve everyone!"

 

Guys, crabs were as example. There will Spiders in title. You may forget about crabs and their walk sideways.
)

 

Have another one question!

Cut out a fat - is it an idiom for "to eliminate accidents/chances"? Just found in two dictionaries of English-Russian, one of them is from programming slang. But it is rare to find this phrase in use and no other idiom dictionaries. So am I right? Is it real true meaning?

 

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