New light fixtures hung on the ceiling.
Something securely fixed in place.
Something attached as a permanent appendage, apparatus, or appliance: plumbing fixtures.
Law. A chattel bound to realty.
One that is invariably present in and long associated with a place: a journalist who became a Washington fixture.
is that your house panzade?
Code:The criticism came just days after the White House announced Rumsfeld would stay on in Bush's second-term Cabinet and the White House closed ranks behind him.
reuters.com
close ranks?
what's that?
That term comes from a manoeuver by marching soldiers...it means everyone unites behind you.
Unite, work together, as in The members decided to close ranks and confront the president. This expression, dating from the late 1700s, comes from the military, where it denotes bringing troops into close order so there are no gaps in the fighting line. (A slightly earlier form was close lines.) It has been used figuratively since the mid-1800s.
JB, it looks like an old apartment being remodeled.
I enjoy your thread JB and I'm impressed at how fast you are learning English. I urge you to write in other threads and don't worry if there are few replies....soon you'll be king of the world.
always thank you panzade
here is the medal for your sincere and relentless help!!
do not be irritated.......
v. ham·mered, ham·mer·ing, ham·mers
v. tr.
To hit, especially repeatedly, with or as if with a hammer; pound.
To beat into a shape with or as if with a hammer: hammered out the dents in the fender; hammered out a contract acceptable to both sides.
To put together, fasten, or seal, particularly with nails, by hammering.
To force upon by constant repetition: hammered the information into the students' heads.
To defeat soundly.
To inflict a heavy loss or damage on.
v. intr.
To deal repeated blows with or as if with a hammer; pummel: "Wind hammered at us violently in gusts" (Thor Heyerdahl).
To undergo beating in the manner of a hammer: My pulse hammered.
Informal. To keep at something continuously: hammered away at the problem.
Idiom:
under the hammer
For sale at an auction.
ham·mered
Shaped or worked with a metalworker's hammer and often showing the marks of these tools: a bowl of hammered brass.
Slang. Drunk or intoxicated.
As you can see, this is a very expressive word in English
so...in this case does it mean somehing like "oppression" or "disaster" or "undermining"?
I'm thinking this is what applies:
pansade wrote:To inflict a heavy loss or damage on.
JB why aren't you smilimg?
sorry for that
I don't not laugh too rudely for the 4-week-long massacre haven't "ended".
But know i find the choice to choose the word "smile" was stupid. (At least you folks are taking on Christmas vacation!)
I am going to change it right now
^JB^ wrote:I don't not laugh too rudely for the 4-week-long massacre haven't "ended"
You are being inscrutable....
