go-to, flout, spit, spitfire, schist, clutch, somebody’s clutches, medic, medevac, Rosary beads, a clutch of, skit, gala, spam, silently on the margins, half-unseen.

"I agree about Shaw — he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor." -- W B Yeats, Letter to George William Russell (1 July 1921)

Hundreds of Pilot Whales Stranded on New Zealand’s Farewell Spit

Turnitin is the go-to software to catch students cheating. Now it's focused on a potential cat-and-mouse game with OpenAI's new ChatGPT chatbot.
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Robert S. Bennett, Washington’s Go-to Lawyer in a Scandal, Dies at 84

He was a robust defender of a host of high-profile clients, including Bill Clinton over the president’s relationship with an intern.

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Prosecutors in Tokyo have obtained an arrest warrant for the wife of Carlos Ghosn as the Japanese justice system responded aggressively to the former Nissan chairman’s escape from its clutches last month.

‘An ABZ of Love’: Kurt Vonnegut’s vintage go-to guide on sex and sexuality

‘An ABZ of Love’: Kurt Vonnegut’s vintage go-to guide on sex and sexuality

The great Kurt Vonnegut. “An erect penis has no resemblance to the kind that they have seen on statues in parks or on small boys paddling the seashore.”…

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Baidu’s go-to engineer for designing better models of “human-computer interaction.”

The price paid by the brave men that manned them was often dreadfully high

Centenary of 'Spitfires of the Seas'

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The bulk of it, some 110,000 square feet of gallery space, is 70 feet below ground, where the foundations of the towers met raw Manhattan schist.

Associated Press president Gary Pruitt described Anja as 'spirited, intrepid and fearless, with a raucous laugh that we will always remember'. Here, in this photograph taken on 11 June 2011, Lance Corporal Blas Trevino of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, clutches his Rosary beads as he is treated by US Army flight medic Sgt Joe Campbell on a medevac helicopter after being shot in the stomach outside Sangin, Afghanistan

"There’s nothing quite like invoking holiness as a way to brag about your life."

Blessed Becomes a Popular Hashtag on Social Media

Calling something “blessed” has become the go-to term for those who want to boast about an accomplishment while pretending to be humble, fish for a...

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A new study suggests that despite huge increases in inequality, America may be no less mobile a society than it was 40 years ago. The study, by a clutch of economists at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, is far bigger than any previous effort to measure social mobility http://econ.st/1kf0gEB

Buying Overseas Clothing, U.S. Flouts Its Own Advice By IAN URBINA In some countries, suppliers to the American government show a pattern of unsafe or abusive conditions.

Petition Wants Met Gala Dedicated to Gay Rights

By MICHAEL COOPER

An online petition calls for the Metropolitan Opera’s Russian-theme gala, led by two supporters of President Vladimir V. Putin, to be dedicated to gay rights.

Swindles and Spam, Lurking in Your Search Results

By AZADEH ENSHA

A little caution when using a search engine can help you steer clear of fraudulent merchandise and keep out of the clutches of spammers.

 

 

  Barbra Streisand, at a Gala and in Memory

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A gala to honor Barbra Steisand is filled with glittering names, but her status as a feminist role model is worth lingering on.

 

  What's So Funny? Actors, Products Star in Skits

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Buried Treasure: World War II Spitfires to Be Unearthed in Burma

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Hospitals Flout Charity Aid Law

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A report says most New York medical centers are violating state rules curbing aggressive debt collections against people who cannot pay.

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Shopping for a Lamborghini

Why did Lamborghini switch from making tractors to making sports cars? Legend has it that if Enzo Ferrari had been a bit less arrogant, the name Lamborghini might still be associated mostly with tractors instead of with some of the world's finest sports cars. Lamborghini tractors and Ferrari sports cars used the same clutch, which had some quality issues. When Ferruccio Lamborghini, who was born on this date in 1916, approached Enzo Ferrari to discuss a possible solution to the problem, Ferrari told Lamborghini to stick to his tractors and leave sports car design to him. Lamborghini took the words as a challenge and went on to design some of the world's fastest and most expensive high-performance sports cars.

Quote:

"A normal chap, a man who likes creating things. A good worker in the morning, and a man who likes enjoying himself in the afternoon." — Ferruccio Lamborghini, describing himself to a reporter

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HANWANG, China — The official came for Yu Tingyun in his village one evening last week. He asked Mr. Yu to get into his car. He was clutching the contract and a pen.


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During the takeover talks, Google ran a small trial of its technology on Yahoo's site in the US, which was widely seen as offering Yahoo's embattled boss, Jerry Yang, a way to escape Microsoft's clutches.


The audience members were considerably younger than most of those at Avery Fisher Hall, the orchestra’s home. A man in his 20s wore a T-shirt, a young woman in a fur-collared coat holding his arm. Several people wore stylish leather jackets. Sober suits were the uniforms for a clutch of city and local Communist Party officials.


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Runners from the eastern region who pushed themselves to the finish in the London Marathon to help raise money for a clutch of charities.

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Definition of spit

1. 1:  a slender pointed rod for holding meat over a fire
2. 2:  a small point of land especially of sand or gravel running into a body of water

   spitfire

ˈspɪtfʌɪə/

noun

1. a person with a fierce temper.

spítfìre[spít・fìre]

[名]

1 かんしゃくもち, （特に女の）短気者.A quick-tempered or highly excitable person.

2 火を吐くもの（火山・大砲など）.

3 ((S-))スピットファイア：第二次世界大戦中の英国の戦闘機.English

 噴火戰鬥機是英國在二次世界大戰期間最出名，也是最主要的單發動機戰鬥機。從1936年第一架原型機試飛開始不斷地改良，期間並且使用兩種不同的液冷式發動機，不僅擔負英國維持空權的重大責任，轉戰歐洲、北非與亞洲等戰區，提供其他盟國使用，戰後還到中東地區參與當地的衝突。噴火與德國空軍Bf 109並列為歐洲戰區最重要的兩大機種，也是兩架從大戰初期較勁到結束的敵人。

medevac

Line breaks: med|evac

Pronunciation: /ˈmɛdɪvak/

(also medivac)

North American

noun

[mass noun]

• The evacuation of military or other casualties to hospital in a helicopter or aeroplane: we radioed Pleiku and asked for medevac [as modifier]: three big medevac choppers
  

  More example sentences

verb (medevacs, medevacking, medevacked)

[with object] 

• Transport (someone) to hospital in a helicopter or aeroplane: I was medevacked out of Freetown

Origin

1960s: blend of medical and evacuation.

medic
Line breaks: medic

Pronunciation: /ˈmɛdɪk/

noun

• 1 • informal , chiefly British A medical practitioner or student.
  

  2US A paramedic in the armed forces.

Origin

mid 17th century: from Latin medicus 'physician', from mederi 'heal'.

Spina Bifida(脊椎披裂)之研究開啟胎兒手術之門

Spina Bifida Research Opens Fetal Surgery Door

Spina Bifida

• [spáinə bífidə]

[U]脊椎(せきつい)披裂.

Definition
Spina bifida is a birth abnormality in which the spine is malformed and lacks its usual protective skeletal and soft tissue coverings.
(spī'nə bĭf'ĭ-də)
n.
A congenital defect in which the spinal column is imperfectly closed so that part of the meninges or spinal cord protrudes, often resulting in hydrocephalus and other neurological disorders. Also called schistorrhachis.

[New Latin spīna bifida : Latin spīna, spine + Latin bifida, feminine of bifidus, split in two.]

schist
[名][U]鉱物片岩.

Pronunciation: /ʃɪst/

noun

[mass noun] Geology A coarse-grained metamorphic rock which consists of layers of different minerals and can be split into thin irregular plates.go-to
(gō tū')
adj.
Being a player on an athletic team who is relied upon to make important plays, especially in clutch situations: the team's go-to receiver.

  What's So Funny? Actors, Products Star in Skits

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Trump's go-to doctor
特朗普的首選醫生

go-to

Syllabification: go-to

adjective

• informal, chiefly North American

• 1 Denoting a person or thing that may be relied on or is regularly sought out in a particular situation: a relentlessly hands-on manager who is the go-to guy for any issues related to the 17-day festival
  
• 1.1 Sports Denoting a member of a sports team who can be relied on to score points if given the opportunity.
  

  
  

go-to

(gō'tū')

  adj.

Being a player on an athletic team who is relied upon to make important plays, especially in clutch situations: the team's go-to receiver.

go-to

adjective

INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN

1. denoting a person or thing that may be relied on or is regularly sought out in a particular situation.

   "he seems to have become the go-to guy for working with kids and animals"

clutch

[名]

1 1回に抱く卵；ひとかえりのひな.

2 同種の多数の人［物］.

━━[動](他)〈ひなを〉かえす(hatch).

v., clutched, clutch·ing, clutch·es. v.tr.

1. To grasp and hold tightly.
2. To seize; snatch.

v.intr.

1. To attempt to grasp or seize: clutch at a life raft.
2. To engage or disengage a motor vehicle's clutch.

n.

1. A hand, claw, talon, or paw in the act of grasping.
2. A tight grasp.
3. Control or power. Often used in the plural: caught in the clutches of sin.
4. A device for gripping and holding.
5. 1. Any of various devices for engaging and disengaging two working parts of a shaft or of a shaft and a driving mechanism.
   2. The apparatus, such as a lever or pedal, that activates one of these devices.
6. A tense, critical situation: came through in the clutch.
7. A clutch bag.

adj. Informal

1. Being or occurring in a tense or critical situation: won the championship by sinking a clutch putt.
2. Tending to be successful in tense or critical situations: The coach relied on her clutch pitcher

[動](他)

1 …を（手・つめで）ぐいとつかむ；…をしっかり握る.

2 ((俗))〈人・関心などを〉捕らえる.

━━(自)

1 （…に）つかみかかる, （…を）つかもうとする((at ...)).

2 （自動車などの）クラッチを入れる.

3 ((米俗))ぎょっとする, ろうばいする, あがる((up)).

━━[名]

1 《機械》クラッチ；クラッチ操作装置［ペダル］

let in ［out］ the clutch
クラッチを入れる［はずす］.

2 ((しばしば〜es))（つかもうとする）手, つめ；((〜es))把握［支配］力, 手中

fall into the clutches of ...
…の手にはいる；…の手にゆだねられる.

3 ((a 〜))（ぐいと）つかむ行為, ひっつかむこと；把握；((米俗))抱擁

make a clutch at ...
…をつかもうとする.

4 物をつかむ装置［道具］.

5 ((米略式))重大な局面；《スポーツ》ピンチ, 最大の山場

in the clutch(es)
((略式))試練にあって；危機に際して

come through in the clutch
危機を切り抜ける.

6 （ひもや持ち手のない）クラッチバッグ(clutch bag).

ride the clutch

クラッチペダルに足をのせたまま［半クラッチで］車を運転する.

━━[形]

1 〈ハンドバッグなどが〉下げひも［持ち手］のつかない

a clutch bag
クラッチバッグ：ひもなしのハンドバッグ.

2 〈コートが〉ファスナーつきでない.

3 ((米俗))危機を切り抜ける；（特にスポーツで）ピンチ［チャンス］に強い.



somebody’s clutches[plural] the power, influence, or control that someone has a small boy trying to escape from his mother’s clutchesin somebody’s clutches She’ll have him in her clutches soon enough.

clutch (HOLD)
verb [I or T]
to take or try to take hold of something tightly, usually in fear, anxiety or pain:
Silent and pale, she clutched (onto) her mother's hand.
Clutching the money to his chest, he hurried to the bank.
He collapsed, clutching his stomach.

clutches
plural noun HUMOROUS
sb's clutches the control of someone:
He is in/has fallen into the clutches of that woman.

clutch (GROUP)

Group noun [C]
1 a small group of eggs produced by the same bird, especially in a nest

2 a small group of people or things:
a fresh clutch of students

clutch

adj. Informal.

1. Being or occurring in a tense or critical situation: won the championship by sinking a clutch putt.
2. Tending to be successful in tense or critical situations: The coach relied on her clutch pitcher.

Definition of clutch

verb

[with object]

• grasp (something) tightly:he stood clutching a microphone figurativeMrs Longhill clutched at the idea

noun

• 1a tight grasp:she made a clutch at his body
• (someone's clutches) a person’s power or control, especially when regarded as inescapable:Tom had fallen into Amanda’s clutches

• 2a mechanism for connecting and disconnecting an engine and the transmission system in a vehicle, or the working parts of any machine: she let the clutch in and the car surged forward
• the pedal operating the clutch in a vehicle.

3North American a clutch bag.

somebody’s clutches[plural] the power, influence, or control that someone has a small boy trying to escape from his mother’s clutchesin somebody’s clutches She’ll have him in her clutches soon enough.

flout 

verb [T]to intentionally disobey a rule, law, or custom:
Many motorcyclists flout the law by not wearing helmets.
The orchestra decided to flout convention/tradition, and wear their everyday clothes for the concert.

flout

Syllabification: (flout)

Pronunciation: /flout/

verb

[with object]

• openly disregard (a rule, law or convention):these same companies still flout basic ethical practices
• [no object] archaic mock; scoff:the women pointed and flouted at her

Origin:

mid 16th century: perhaps from Dutch fluiten 'whistle, play the flute, hiss (in derision'); German dialect pfeifen auf, literally 'pipe at', has a similar extended meaning

 skit
 (skĭt)
n.

1. A short, usually comic dramatic performance or work; a theatrical sketch.
2. A short humorous or satirical piece of writing.

[Origin unknown.]

gala

Pronunciation: /ˈgɑːlə, ˈgeɪlə/

Definition of gala

noun

• a social occasion with special entertainments or performances: [as modifier]:a gala performance by the Royal Ballet
• British a special sports meeting, especially a swimming competition: we met at a swimming gala

Origin:

early 17th century (in the sense 'showy dress'): via Italian and Spanish from Old French gale 'rejoicing'

spam

Pronunciation: /spam/

Definition of spam

noun
[mass noun]

• 1irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the Internet, typically to large numbers of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc..
• unwanted or intrusive advertising on the Internet: [as modifier]:an autogenerated spam website

• 2 (Spam) trademark a tinned meat product made mainly from ham.

verb

[with object]

• send the same message indiscriminately to (a large numbers of Internet users).

Derivatives

Spammer

noun

Origin:

1930s: apparently from sp(iced h)am. The Internet sense appears to derive from a sketch by the British ‘Monty Python’ comedy group, set in a cafe in which every item on the menu includes spam