Yes, "cutting a deal" means "making a deal" (usually in a disparaging sense, that the person arranged a shameful bargain with the enemy, betraying his allies). For speculation on the origin of the phrase (first found in print in 1979!), see here.
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Egyptian hieroglyphs () were a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that contained a combination of logographic and alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood. Less formal variations of the script, called hieratic and demotic, are technically not hieroglyphs.
Scholars generally believe that Egyptian hieroglyphs came into existence a little after Sumerian script, and were possibly invented under the influence of the latter.
Etymology
The word hieroglyphic comes from the Greek adjective (hieroglyphikos),[http://www....
I'm looking for a free font containing ideally all Unicode characters. I'm reading some text concerning Unicode and many of the interesting examples shows like a bunch of empty squares.
Examples (feel free to edit in more):
What/who are “toy soldiers”?
What do these confusing lyrics mean?
What's the deep meaning in the lyrics of “Heavy Traffic” by Elton John?
Some questions about the lyric of “so feel autumn rain”.
See lyrics tag for more.
Meaning of “grabbed a spoon” — ...
A straitjacket is a garment shaped like a jacket with overlong sleeves and is typically used to restrain a person who may otherwise cause harm to themselves or others. Once the arms are inserted into the straitjacket's sleeves, they are then crossed across the chest. The end of the sleeves are then tied to the back of the wearer, ensuring that the arms are kept close to the chest with as little movement as possible.
Although straitjacket is the most common spelling, strait-jacket is also frequently used, and in Scotland strait-waistcoat, which is generally deemed archaic. Straitjacke...
When you are the one steering the motorbike/motorcycle, are you driving the motorcycle or riding the motorcycle.
I am asking because someone tried to correct my status update. Here's my stauts and the comment
Today, after 6 years, I drove a motorcycle on a long route. Great Feeling. Loved it...
I noticed the use of "whose" in the following sentence I wrote does not refer to a person:
A recent post on Less Wrong, Levels of Action, reminded me of a game I created whose dynamics I wanted to explore.
I use "whose" in this way fairly often. I'm just wondering, is it correct Standard E...
This came up in describing an input to a function:
A handle to the daemon who's name is desired.
(Daemon is a type of process on a system.)
Somehow, "who's" just doesn't seem right because it's not a who, but a what. Could one say "... the daemon what's name is desired"?
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is the Japanese term for the picture characters or emoticons used in Japanese wireless messages and webpages. Originally meaning pictograph, the word literally means "picture" + "letter". The characters are used much like emoticons elsewhere, but a wider range is provided, and the icons are standardized and built into the handsets. Some emoji are very specific to Japanese culture, such as a bowing (apologizing) businessman, a face wearing a face mask or a group of emoji representing popular foods (ramen noodles, dango, onigiri, Japanese curry, sushi). The three main Japanese operators,...
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