2011年3月14日 · Related: Tabled; tabling. That may be true for political jargon, but in every business meeting I've ever been involved with, to "table" something usually means the issue wasn't going to go away but that we were agreeing not to talk about it during the current meeting.

Ann had an idea. We tabled her idea. In the UK this means "We put this idea on an agenda so it could be discussed". In the US this seems to mean "We didn't have time, so we didn't put it on an agenda now. We might sometime in the future." These are different (sometimes opposite!) meanings. What's the etymology of these usages for each country?

2016年9月23日 · To "table" an idea, in American English at least, is to delay or postpone an idea that has been presented and not necessarily reject it outright.

2017年4月21日 · 'The tables are turned' is licensed by Usingenglish.com and the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms. 'The tables have turned' is quite commonly seen on the internet; it involves using 'turn' in the middle voice (so 'How the tables have turned' = 'How the tables have been turned' and is equivalent to 'How the tables are [now] turned', and is used as a variant).

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As a preposition, "below" would be written after "information" as a stranded preposition.While typically prepositions would precede the noun, stranded prepositions can occur "in interrogative or relative clauses, where the interrogative or relative pronoun that is the preposition's complement is moved to the start".

2014年4月19日 · I guess this question has been asked before, but please take a look the following sentence and tell me if there is a difference between them. When the transaction had been completed, A was still a

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2012年5月20日 · "As follows" is an idiom which introduces a list. You can say "the following" as a sort of pronoun (an anaphoric noun phrase), eg

For example, there is a verb used in political discussions, "to table". Common usage: "The bill to increase the police budget was tabled". What's odd is that this word means two different things depending on which side of the pond you're on: in America, the term is shorthand for "to lay on the table"; that is, to dismiss from or halt discussion.