the Words Made Flesh

“Curate’s Egg”: (UK) an idiom that is applied when something is partly good, but mainly bad. E.g. the film is something of a curate’s egg “Curate’s egg dates to a cartoon published in the humorous British magazine “Punch” in 1895 Synonym idioms/ words: All very good/ fine/ well, as far as it goes, average, acceptable, adequate, agreeable, be nothing special, be standard, be nothing to get excited about, be up to par, bog-standard, cut both/ two ways, double-edged, fair to middling, forgettable, goodish, half decent, iffy, impure, mediocrity, indifferent, not all roses, passable, of a kind, rough edges, second best, second-rate, the best of a bad bunch/ lot, the lesser of two evils, the next best thing, unexceptionable, up to scratch

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Born Diana Spencer on July 1, 1961, Princess Diana became Lady Diana Spencer after her father inherited the title of Earl Spencer in 1975. She married the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, on July 29, 1981. They had two sons and later divorced in 1996. In 2017, 20 years after her death, a collection of Diana's memorable ensembles earned an exhibition at Kensington Palace. Later that year, it was revealed that her life had inspired a musical: Simply titled Diana, the production reportedly offered a dramatized version of her days leading up to the royal wedding in 1981, and was set to debut at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse in 2018.

Ceremony of the Keys, the oldest ceremony in the world ~Tower of London: Every night since 1280, the Gentleman Porter locks the tower

COLLECTIVE NOUNS a flutter of butterflies Grammar: a collective noun is a count noun that denotes a group of individuals (e.g. assembly, family, crew, staff, company…): A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people, animals and things. Collective nouns are names for a collection or a number of people, animals and things. Words like group, herd, and array are collective noun examples. Two other large categories of nouns are the concrete and abstract nouns:  Concrete noun: names a person, place, thing that can be common or proper  Abstract noun: names a notion, something that cannot be seen or touched, it names something that can be thought about or conceived. USAGE A collective noun can be used with either a singular verb (My family was always hard-working) or a plural verb (his family were disappointed in him). Generally speaking, in Britain it is more common for collective pronouns to be followed by a plural verb, while the US the opposite is true. In Br...