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| Дата: Воскресенье, 06.12.2015, 19:04 | Сообщение # 1 Offline |
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Olivemef
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| Chock-a-block/chock full the use of slate as a writing surface on which one could chalk up scores in games or debts in a shop or pub has given rise to a number of current expressions. Something that has been put on the slate is one credit. To wipe the slate clean is to prepare for a fresh start, either by paying off debts or by expunging the score of the previous game to make room for the next. To start with a clean slate is a similar expression. The verb slate (criticism) may derive from the practice of recording debts on a slate or from a northern english dialect word meaning to use or encourage a dog to attack or to herd animals. The former use of slate as a writing surface in schools may have given extra currency to expressions about clean slates or may be the origin of them. It has also been suggested that slated (condemned) may have originated in a practice of writing the names of disgraced pupils on a publicly displayed slate used as a noticeboard.
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Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
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