His craft is based in the notion that things of quality are meant to be fixed, even repeatedly, rather than discarded and replaced.
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His memoirs, including “Clinging to the Wreckage” (1982), “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life” (1994), drop dozens of names of the theater and movie people he spent time with. There are trays upon trays of cocktails in his stories, and interviews late in his life note the presence of what was described in one as a “comfortably large Guinness that he is drinking for his health even though it is still a long time until lunch.”
This term may also refer to corner cabinets on which the shelves are mounted on a vertical axle such that items may be retrieved by pushing on the shelves to turn them. This type is usually found in kitchens. Closed, this type of lazy Susan appears to be two normal cabinets at right angles to each other. When pushed on, the cabinet "doors" reveal the shelves, which are circular except for the ninety degree cutout where the doors are mounted.
The term "Lazy Susan" made its first written appearance in a Vanity Fair advertisement for a "Revolving Server or Lazy Susan" in 1917. Prior to that time they were called dumbwaiters, a term also applied to a type of small elevator for transporting food.
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transport
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French transporter or Latin transportare, from trans- 'across' +portare 'carry'.
a small tray (= flat surface for carrying especially food and drink)
transportive
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Trip sitter, or sometimes a sober sitter or co-pilot, is a term used by recreational or spiritual drug users to describe a person who remains sober to ensure the safety of the drug user while he or she is under the influence of a drug; they are especially common with first-time experiences or when using psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants. This practice can be qualified as a means of harm reduction.
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Fall all over - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
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Fig. to give a lot of attention, affection, or praise to someone. My aunt falls all over me whenever she comes to visit. I hate for someone to fall all over me.trip
- 4.1 Turn (a yard or other object) from a horizontal to a vertical position for lowering.
- 4.1 Turn (a yard or other object) from a horizontal to a vertical position for lowering.
- 5informal no object Experience hallucinations induced by taking a psychedelic drug, especially LSD.‘a couple of boys were tripping’‘he smoked weed and tripped out on acid’
- 5.1be trippingNorth American Be behaving in an irrational or crazy way.‘you're tripping if you think I'm hanging around’‘I would like to know if I'm the one who's trippin' or if it's him’
- 5.1be trippingNorth American Be behaving in an irrational or crazy way.
- 6no object, with adverbial of direction Go on a short journey.‘when tripping through the Yukon take some time to explore our museums’
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