The common English idiom that seems most similar to that usage to me is to say that something is going to crash and burn.
In class list, what is correct way to arrange in abc order by maiden name, but also have married name, so that someone who doesn't know the person and does not know the list is abc order by maiden name would be able to tell which is which?
It was a sudden plan,indeed,a surprise trip on my b'day.
Is this sentence correct in reply of -You people went to Goa without us?
I think both are correct but is that true and what is the difference between them (if there is any)?
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If you’ve been around Meta Stack Overflow the past few days, you’ve seen a fair bit of conversation sparked by the recent changes to how reputation is calculated:
To be clear: reputation values are not changing, every action in the system is still worth the same amount. Here’s what will be different:
Your reputation will be correct at all times
Deletions will have a much more immediate effect on reputation, not waiting on a recalc (but reputation sync takes up to 5 minutes on a delete/undelete action; as to not block the user’s response thread, it’s offloaded to a background queue) …
the penultimate letter 'e' in the first and the penultimate letter 'o' in the second! Simples!!
In German, there is an idiomatic phrase:
wie eine Seifenblase zerplatzen
Its literal translation is "burst like a soap bubble"; if something will "burst like a soap bubble", it will fail miserably. Is there a good analogous English expression? The only one I can think of is "fall like a h...Transcript for
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