empty into / out, full-dress, yell, the closet thing, closet drama, sold down the river, A-lister

Frontrunners MIA for Opening Republican Debate
Tim Pawlenty will be the closet thing to an A-lister on stage.




Google's response: It removed not just the material but also the entire user group that contained it, a person familiar with the matter says. The Internet giant feared the comments could heighten tensions at a time when thousands of mourners of the popular politician were emptying into the street.

Amazingly, no, it’s not. The Monet show that just opened here at the Grand Palais is a start. The biggest art spectacle in Europe this fall, with some 160 paintings, it is, believe it or not, the first full-dress overview Paris has staged in decades, the first chance anywhere to see the whole sweep of his work in some time.

Floods Slam Australian City

Parts of the downtown district of Brisbane were emptying out as frightened residents and workers fled floods that have ravaged the state of Queensland, killing more than 10 people and displacing thousands.

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I told the gunmen, 'I'm not leaving my hospital.' I told them, 'If I die, I will die with my people and my dignity.' I yelled at them, 'You are young and you are a man, but what have you done for your society?' "

DR. HAWA ABDI, a physician in war-ravaged Somalia.

Definition of yell

noun

•  1a loud, sharp cry of pain, surprise, or delight: her foot slipped and she gave a yell of fear
•  North American an organized cheer, especially one used to support a sports team.

•  2 [in singular] British informal, dated an extremely amusing person or thing.

verb

[no object]

•  shout in a loud, sharp way:you heard me losing my temper and yelling at her

Origin:

Old English g(i)ellan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gillen and German gellen

 empty out one's pockets
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full-dress,

(fʊl'drĕs')
adj.

1. Of, appropriate for, or requiring full dress; formal: a full-dress uniform; a full-dress ceremony.
2. Complete in every respect: a full-dress debate.
3. Characterized by exhaustive thoroughness: a full-dress investigation of the sca

empty
adj., -ti·er, -ti·est.

1. 1. Holding or containing nothing.
   2. Mathematics. Having no elements or members; null: an empty set.
2. Having no occupants or inhabitants; vacant: an empty chair; empty desert.
3. Lacking force or power: an empty threat.
4. Lacking purpose or substance; meaningless: an empty life.
5. Not put to use; idle: empty hours.
6. Needing nourishment; hungry: "More fierce and more inexorable far/Than empty tigers or the roaring sea" (Shakespeare).
7. Devoid; destitute: empty of pity.

v., -tied, -ty·ing, -ties. v.tr.

1. To remove the contents of: emptied the dishwasher.
2. To transfer or pour off completely: empty the ashes into a pail.
3. To unburden; relieve: empty oneself of doubt.

v.intr.

1. To become empty: The theater emptied after the performance.
2. To discharge its contents: The river empties into a bay.

n. Informal, pl., -ties.
An empty container.

[Middle English, from Old English ǣmtig, vacant, unoccupied, from ǣmetta, leisure.]

emptily emp'ti·ly adv.
emptiness emp'ti·ness n.

SYNONYMS empty, vacant, blank, void, vacuous, bare, barren. These adjectives mean without contents that could or should be present. Empty applies to what is wholly lacking contents or substance: an empty room; empty promises. Vacant refers to what is without an occupant or incumbent, or to what is without intelligence or thought: a vacant auditorium; a vacant stare. Blank stresses the absence of something, especially on a surface, that would convey meaning or content: blank pages. Void applies to what is free from or completely destitute of discernible content: gibberish void of all meaning. Vacuous describes what is as devoid of substance as a vacuum is: led a vacuous life. Something that is bare lacks surface covering (a bare head) or detail (the bare facts); the word also denotes the condition of being stripped of contents or furnishings: a bare closet. Barren literally and figuratively stresses lack of productivity: barren land; writing barren of insight. See also synonyms at vain.

WORD HISTORY In Old English Ic eom ǣmtig could mean "I am empty," "I am unoccupied," or "I am unmarried." The sense "unoccupied, at leisure," which did not survive Old English, points to the derivation of ǣmtig from the Old English word ǣmetta, "leisure, rest." The word ǣmetta may in turn go back to the Germanic root *mōt-, meaning "ability, leisure." In any case, Old English ǣmtig also meant "vacant," a sense that was destined to take over the meaning of the word. Empty, the Modern English descendant of Old English ǣmtig, has come to have the sense "idle," so that one can speak of empty leisure.

closet

(klŏz'ĭt, klô'zĭt)
n.

1. A cabinet or enclosed recess for linens, household supplies, or clothing.
2. A small private chamber, as for study or prayer.
3. A water closet; a toilet.
4. A state of secrecy or cautious privacy: Two days before the election, the candidate suddenly came out of the closet and denounced the proposed law.

tr.v., -et·ed, -et·ing, -ets.
To enclose or shut up in a private room, as for discussion: closeted themselves with their attorneys.

adj.

1. Private; confidential: closet information.
2. Being so or engaging only in private; secret: a closet proponent of a tax increase; a closet alcoholic.
3. Based on theory and speculation rather than practice.

[Middle English, private room, from Old French, diminutive of clos, enclosure, from Latin clausum, from neuter of clausus, enclosed. See close.]

closetful clos'et·ful' n.

noun

• 1chiefly North American a cupboard or wardrobe, especially one tall enough to walk into: rich women with closets full of clothes they’ll never wear
• a small room, especially one used for storing things or for private study.

• 2 archaic a toilet.

• 3 (the closet) used to refer to a state of secrecy or concealment, especially about one’s homosexuality:lesbians who had come out of the closet

adjective

[attributive]

• secret; covert:a closet feminist

verb (closets, closeting, closeted)

[with object]

• shut (someone) away, especially in private conference or study:he was closeted with the king he returned home and closeted himself in his room

Origin:

late Middle English (denoting a private or small room): from Old French, diminutive of clos 'closed' (see close¹)

A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group. A related form, the "closet screenplay," developed during the 20th century.

A-list

(or B-list)

noun

• a real or imaginary list of the most (or second most) celebrated or sought-after individuals, especially in show business: [as modifier]:an A-list celebrity

Derivatives

A-lister

(or B-lister) noun

(2001) 據廣告，M. Porter教授又要來台賣其競爭力膏藥，特舉戴明一佳言賀之。

美國在競爭想法上被騙了(American has been sold down the river on competition.—Dr. Deming)

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Sold down the river

Meaning

Betrayed or cheated.

Origin

This phrase originated in the Mississippi region of the USA during slave trading days. Slaves who caused trouble were sold from the northern slave states into the much harsher conditions on plantations in the lower Mississippi.

The earliest reference I can find to the phrase in print is in The Ohio Repository, May 1837:

"One man, in Franklin County has lately realized thirty thousand dollars, in a speculation on slaves, which he bought in Virginia, and sold down the river."

The figurative use of the phrase, meaning simply to deceive or cheat, began in the early 20th century. For example, this piece from P. G. Wodehouse's Small Bachelor, 1927:

"When Sigsbee Waddington married for the second time, he to all intents and purposes sold himself down the river."