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'Do you know what a spendthrift is? Most don’t!' blog discussion
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bylromarha wrote: »Then you only put half the answer!:rotfl:
But both my answers are correct - you only chose one of them!!!
Cleave means to split apart and to stick fast to!
In other words, CLEAVE is an antonym of itself!0 -
the one I really like is 'snowballing'.
Has a perfectly nice meaning on here and something ENTIRELY different on wikipedia
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spendthrift
thrifty spender
completely different meanings, but honestly, if you don't know these turns of phrase, I would hope it's because English isn't your first language0 -
Is the opposite of a spendthrift a skinflint or a miser?0
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the one I really like is 'snowballing'.
Has a perfectly nice meaning on here and something ENTIRELY different on wikipedia
Are you new here? You are grotesquely misjudging the distance between the gutter and the minds of this site's members.
They were discussing 'lollicams' in my local papers last week - it is very important, if researching on the web, to do make sure you include a double 'l' when googling that term.0 -
I like debt-junkie for someone hooked on debt or landfiller for someone who buys lots of 'stuff'.
I'd like to open a seaside shop called 'Landfill'.
GGThere are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.0
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