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MUSCOVITE Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

same words - very different meanings

Hi,

I'd like to compile a list of terms/phrases/word combinations consisting of the same words yet having quite different meanings.

Examples:
(1) a car jack V carjacking
(2) a morning after (a party) V morning-after pills
(3) ....

If you could help?
Looking forward to your input :-)

mus-te
  

Top answer

going downtown (going to the business district/heart of a city) - going downtown (shooting from the 3-point line in basketball) bull vs. bear (opposite views of stock market) - bull vs. bear (staged animal fights in Renaissance Europe)

— Anonymous

  • going downtown (going to the business district/heart of a city) - going downtown (shooting from the 3-point line in basketball) bull vs.
  • bear (opposite views of stock market) - bull vs.
  • bear (staged animal fights in Renaissance Europe)
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going downtown (going to the business district/heart of a city) - going downtown (shooting from the 3-point line in basketball)

bull vs. bear (opposite views of stock market) - bull vs. bear (staged animal fights in Renaissance Europe)
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Anonymousgoing downtown (going to the business district/heart of a city) - going downtown (shooting from the 3-point line in basketball)bull vs. bear (opposite views of stock market) - bull vs. bear (staged animal fights in Renaissance Europe)
Thanks for the very interesting examples, Anon!
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1. "Downtown" means from outside the three-point line. That is, he's shooting from "downtown."

2. There used to be bear and dog fights, so I imagine there might have been bear and bull fights.
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MUSCOVITEhaven't been able to find any info on such a (barbaric ) "entertainment" in the Internet...
Look up "bear baiting". The following link may interest you.

http://www.change.org/petitions/rescue-masha-from-bear-baiting-camp-in-
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CalifJimLook up "bear baiting". The following link may interest you.http://www.change.org/petitions/rescue-masha-from-bear-baiting-camp-in-russia
If I could, I would BAN hunting (and all these cruelties accompanying hunting ...including b
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MUSCOVITEbut if you think that all my fellow countrymen are sadists, murders and so on and so forth
Don't be silly. I prefer to think of them as artists. Music and ballet come to mind. Tchaikovsky! And then there's Tolstoy. Did you know that some novelists think that Anna Karenina is the best novel ever written? I've read it five times myself.
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CalifJimDon't be silly. I prefer to think of them as artists. Music and ballet come to mind. Tchaikovsky! And then there's Tolstoy. Did you know that some novelists think that Anna Karenina is the best novel ever written? I've read it five times myself.
Ready to eat my words :-) On the other hand, if I wasn't being a little provocative, I wouldn't have learned
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