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English Idioms :: where
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where-2.html - See: TELL ONE WHERE TO GET OFF or TELL ONE WHERE TO HEAD IN. |
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English Idioms :: where it's at
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where-2.html - {adv. phr.}, {informal} That which is important; that which is at the forefront of on-going social, personal, or scientific undertakings. * /Young, talented and black, that's where it's at./ * /We send sophisticated machines to Mars instead of people, that's where it's at./ |
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English Idioms :: where the shoe pinches
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where-2.html - {n. phr.}, {informal} Where or what the discomfort or trouble is. * /Johnny thinks the job is easy, but he will find out where the shoe pinches when he tries it./ * /The coach said he wasn't worried about any position except quarterback; that was where the shoe pinched./ |
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English Idioms :: wherefore
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where-2.html - See: WHY AND WHEREFORE. |
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Traditional English :: where
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where-2.html - adv., conj., pron., & n. --interrog.adv. 1 in or to what place or position? (where is the milk?; where are you going?). 2 in what direction or respect? (where does the argument lead?; where does it concern us?). 3 in what book etc.?; from whom? (where did you read that?; where did you hear that?). 4 in what situation or condition? (where does that leave us?). --rel.adv. (prec. by place etc.) in or to which (places where they meet). --conj. 1 in or to the or any place, direction, or respect in which (go where you like; that is where you are wrong; delete where applicable).
2 and there (reached Crewe, where the car broke down). --pron. what place? (where do you come from?; where are you going to?). --n. place; scene of something (see WHEN n.). [OE hwór, hwar] |
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Traditional English :: where'er
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where-2.html - poet. var. of WHEREVER. |
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