somethig.html - {v. phr.} To be informed of the latest developments. * /It is difficult to keep abreast of all the various wars that are being waged on planet Earth./ Compare: KEEP STEP WITH.

somethig.html - {v. phr.} To be informed of the latest developments. * /It is difficult to keep abreast of all the various wars that are being waged on planet Earth./ Compare: KEEP STEP WITH.

somethig.html - {adj.}, {slang}, {informal} So good as to be beyond description; the ultimate; stupendous. * /Janet Hopper is really something else./

somethig.html - {n. phr.} A different kind of thing; something different. * /I don't care if you borrow my dictionary sometimes, but taking it without asking and keeping it is something else again./ * /"But I don't want a new car," Charles said to the car dealer, "I want a used car." "Oh," said the car dealer, "that's something else again."/

somethig.html - {v. phr.} To lose or give up someone or something forever. * /"If you won't marry Jane," Peter said to Tom, "you might as well kiss her goodbye."/ * /People who bet on a losing horse at the races might as well kiss their money goodbye./

somethig.html - n.,
pron., & adv. --n.

& pron.
1 a some unspecified or unknown thing (have something to tell you; something has happened). b (in full something or other) as a substitute for an unknown or forgotten description (a student of something or other).
2 a known or understood but unexpressed quantity, quality, or extent (there is something about it I do not like; is something of a fool).
3 colloq. an important or notable person or thing (the party was quite something).

--adv.

archaic in some degree.

or something or some unspecified alternative possibility (must have run away or something). see something of encounter (a person)) briefly or occasionally. something else 1 something different.
2 colloq. something exceptional. something like 1 an amount in the region of (left something like a million pounds).
2 somewhat like (shaped something like a cigar).
3 colloq. impressive; a fine specimen of. something of to some extent; in some sense (is something of an expert). [OE sum thing (as SOME, THING)]