David’s mouth is set in a grim line. The word grin means: making you feel worried or unhappy looking or sounding very serious very bad, ugly, or unpleasant (informal) ill (informal) [1] But I …

May 21, 2015 · Have a look at the entries for "gloomy" and "grim" in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms. This book consists of nothing but articles explaining the fine distinctions …

When something sets, it becomes solid/unchanging. Ron's face has set into a single, grim, determined expression. to set if a liquid sets, or if you set it, it forms a solid substance if your …

Dec 5, 2019 · It is a mistake. "Our end" (or "my end") refers to someone's side of an arrangement, procedure, or sometimes a point of view. You might hear: From our end, things look fine There …

Jun 12, 2023 · Is the phrase "brace for" usually positive? Or is it neutral in this case? The answer to your question is more complex than you might hope. It might be simpler to believe that "to …

It just means that the narrator is speaking in the strongest or most severe possible terms. He doesn't want to pull any punches. One meaning of stark (The Free Dictionary Online) is …

I have generally seen backdrop in the following form: "against the backdrop of" However, in an article I found the following sentence: It is the story of a complex relationship and clashing

But as the article notes, Gilligan's definition doesn't do justice to the full meaning of the term, which is probably impossible to define precisely. In the first episode, Jesse uses the phrase to …

Jan 27, 2022 · What @JackO'Flaherty said. There will be some contexts where the potential difference in meaning is inconsequential, but obviously the two verb forms to define as and to …

Feb 15, 2019 · A comparable sentence to "they left him for dead" might be " they took him for a fool ", which means that "they" wrongly assumed he was a fool. "They left him for death" is not …