Possessive of Dress = Dress's | WordReference Forums
2006年7月8日 · The pronunciation of a singular noun already ending in s, being made possessive by adding 's, sounds the same as if you were pluralizing it with -es: dress's sounds like dresses, Chris's sounds like Chrises, waitress's sounds like waitresses, etc.
dressed as vs dressed like | WordReference Forums
2014年7月13日 · She dresses as a boy = she regularly dresses herself fully in boys' clothing, maybe because she is experimenting with her gender identity or because she is disguising herself to pass as male (like some women who pretended to be men to fight in wars -- the Mulan legend, the American Civil War, etc).
dress up vs. be dressed up | WordReference Forums
2016年3月18日 · You "dress up" or "are dressed up" very well. What's the occasion today? Are they both correct? If so, which one is more common?
Your mother wears army boots! | WordReference Forums
2007年2月13日 · G'day Inglis@s' Your mother wears army boots! What does this saying mean to you? .,, Please no links, just your opinion
idiom or saying for having the same outfit on
2009年10月30日 · One of the common things said in the office, at least in my experience, is, "I see you got the memo." It implies that there was a memo describing how people should have dressed that day and the two wearing the same clothes followed its instructions.
mini or mini- [hyphen?] - WordReference Forums
2012年10月22日 · Hi everyone, I have a question regarding the use of "mini". How can one determine if "mini" should be used as a prefix in a compound (and thus require a hyphen) or if it should rather be considered a prenominal adjective, in which case both words ("mini" and the noun it modifies) would stand as...
I don’t swing that way | WordReference Forums
2013年9月1日 · Background: A waiter dresses up in a costume at work for a children's charity. Here's a funny conversation she has with two customers: Elderly Customer: “Can you actually fly in that get-up?” Me: “Sure can, but it spills the coffees.” Male Customer: “Super heroes? Serving coffee? It’s like...
I never do this/I've never done this? | WordReference Forums
2011年9月10日 · Hi stuartfang, what was it that the character in 27 Dresses said? Was it "I never did that before"? Now, I'm not American, but "I never did that before" is how an American would say it. He/She might also say, "I've never done it before."
A school hall in British English | WordReference Forums
2016年7月15日 · Our Assembly Hall wasn't used as a gym: we already had four gyms (and a small theatre) on the premises. It was used for assembly every morning (2000 girls plus staff) and for events such as concerts and the musicals we put on (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, HMS Pinafore, that sort of thing), in addition to being where we took our O-Level …
She will get her clothes dirty | WordReference Forums
2018年4月14日 · Can we use: Husbad: Dress her up. ( her is a 1 yr old girl) Wife: No later in , or else she will get her clothes dirty by crawling. Is get clothes dirty correct. He got his clothes dirty by playing in the mud. Thank you