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  • etymology - Origin of the expression Dead to rights? - English . . .
    DEAD TO RIGHTS, caught, with positive proof of guilt So it appears that Farmer Henley didn't fully grasp the sense of "dead to rights" as the phrase was used in the latter half of the nineteenth century, though the meaning that Slang and Its Analogues ascribes to the term certainly does appear in some contemporaneous writings
  • meaning - What does to be dead to {something} mean? - English . . .
    What does dead to {something} mean? Internet research brings up: "dead to the world" meaning "sound asleep" "dead to rights" meaning "in the act, guilty without question" "dead to me" meaning "as far as I'm concerned, we are no longer friends (or family) In my mind, it's as if you are dead" None of these seem relevant to the quoted context
  • etymology - The meaning of caught dead - English Language Usage . . .
    One hybrid does appear, where 'caught dead' is used as an abridgement of 'caught dead to rights', but it appears at a much later date (copyrighted 1889) Additionally, the early sense of 'dead to rights' is the positive 'completely, certainly', which is at odds with the negative sense of WNCD
  • slang - Word for the loss of one parent - English Language Usage . . .
    Merriam-Webster has an entry for half-orphan, meaning someone with only one living parent They say specifically a child, which would match the usual usage of "orphan" (as mentioned in the question), but it might be used of an adult sometimes, either jocularly or by extension This doesn't distinguish which parent is dead, but could be combined with a further explanation if it matters
  • What is a respectful way to refer to a person who has died?
    What is a respectful way to refer to a person who has died? Is it OK to call that person "rest in peace"? The rest in peace guy was a very generous man
  • Examples of using dead to mean directly [closed]
    0 Another example is dead reckoning, the process of calculating one's current position by using a previously determined position, or fix Which may not actually fit your "directly" criteria, but dead to rights seems to - in the act; (guilty) without question The "without question" being "direct"
  • Why is a woman a widow and a man a widower?
    I suspect because the phrase was only needed for women and widower is a much later literary invention Widow had a lot of legal implications for property, titles and so on If the survivor of a marriage was a woman things got complicated before women had many rights If the survivor was a man in the middle ages it didn't really make much difference as he held all the property anyway A similar
  • Origin of the phrase, Theres more than one way to skin a cat.
    I couldn't find any use of the phrase earlier than the 1840 Money Diggers reference, but I did find some background to which the saying might refer Apparently the debate on cat-skinning boiled down to whether or not it was done while the cat was still alive Here's a clip from the disturbing House of Commons' Minutes of Evidence Taken Before Committee on Bill for Prevention of Cruelty to
  • What term describes something alive with a brain?
    The Politics of Species: Reshaping Our Relationships with Other Animals edited by Raymond Corbey, Annette Lanjouw Sentience, a capacity to experience, is necessary and sufficient for rights Why? By definition, sentient beings can experience suffering and well-being Also, sentient beings lose all opportunity for pleasant experiences when they die
  • What is an idiom about a stubborn person opinion that uses the word . . .
    Another related idiom is From my cold, dead hands "I'll give you my gun when you pry (or take) it from my cold, dead hands" is a slogan popularized by the National Rifle Association (NRA) on a series of bumper stickers





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