<span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">thing</span> <span class="searchmatch">or</span> <span class="searchmatch">two</span> An unspecified amount What are you doing today? —I have <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">thing</span> <span class="searchmatch">or</span> <span class="searchmatch">two</span> to take care of. (meiosis) <span class="searchmatch">A</span> considerable amount; <span class="searchmatch">a</span> lot. He's <span class="searchmatch">a</span>...
show someone <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">thing</span> <span class="searchmatch">or</span> <span class="searchmatch">two</span> An expression used to indicate that one intends to impress others with something. 1854 February 22, The Adeliade Times, Adelaide...
also: <span class="searchmatch">Thing</span> and <span class="searchmatch">þing</span> English Wikipedia has an article on: <span class="searchmatch">thing</span> Wikipedia thang (slang, pronunciation spelling, usually used to denote <span class="searchmatch">a</span> known fad <span class="searchmatch">or</span> popular...
form of en och annan ett (“one (<span class="searchmatch">thing</span>)”) + och (“and”) + annat (“other things”) ett och annat (idiomatic) <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">thing</span> <span class="searchmatch">or</span> <span class="searchmatch">two</span> Som bilmekaniker med trettio års...
(plural <span class="searchmatch">two</span>-thousandths) The person <span class="searchmatch">or</span> <span class="searchmatch">thing</span> in the <span class="searchmatch">two</span>-thousandth position. One of <span class="searchmatch">two</span> thousand equal parts of <span class="searchmatch">a</span> whole. the person <span class="searchmatch">or</span> <span class="searchmatch">thing</span> in the five-hundredth...
attend <span class="searchmatch">two</span> assemblies […] Declension of <span class="searchmatch">þing</span> (Scanian system) Danish: ting Norwegian Bokmål: ting þinċġ, þinġċ From Proto-West Germanic *<span class="searchmatch">þing</span>, from Proto-Germanic...
all-in-<span class="searchmatch">two</span> nappy <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">thing</span> <span class="searchmatch">or</span> <span class="searchmatch">two</span> at ten and <span class="searchmatch">two</span> Aztec <span class="searchmatch">two</span>-step beast with <span class="searchmatch">two</span> backs bent as <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">two</span> bob between <span class="searchmatch">two</span> stools big <span class="searchmatch">two</span> blues and <span class="searchmatch">twos</span> Boettger's...
(with article) <span class="searchmatch">a</span> bit, <span class="searchmatch">a</span> fair amount, <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">thing</span> <span class="searchmatch">or</span> <span class="searchmatch">two</span> (an unspecified amount) Hij weet het een en ander van het onderwerp He knows <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">thing</span> <span class="searchmatch">or</span> <span class="searchmatch">two</span> about the subject...
be another <span class="searchmatch">thing</span> used with the phrase be one <span class="searchmatch">thing</span> to compare <span class="searchmatch">two</span> different ideas, situations, <span class="searchmatch">or</span> actions, especially when the latter is more serious,...
<span class="searchmatch">thing</span> To be ordinary <span class="searchmatch">or</span> acceptable; often used with "be another <span class="searchmatch">thing</span>" to contrast <span class="searchmatch">two</span> different ideas, situations, <span class="searchmatch">or</span> actions. Talking is one <span class="searchmatch">thing</span>;...