Is there an English word which indicates a sudden and unexpected movement made for catching somebody or something? For example, when somebody waits in hiding to attack a bird and then grasps it. I am...
What does it mean when a face has "weather-lines falling into place" ? Does this mean the person's face is wrinkled? I found it in a poem beginning like this: "Glasses on, suddenly she'd become...
I am translating a text from Paul Auster and I encountered this expression "loss of face". The context is like this: a man leaves his pregnant wife and, after a while, when he thinks about returning...
how do you name the place where a small river or a brook dissappears underground entering suddenly under the rocks of a cave? in Romanian this is "sorb" and probably "to absorb" might be related to...
I searched for this word in English and I couldn't find if it means also a kind of circular or oval hole formed by erozion in the bed of a river. If it helps, the French word is "marmite". I don't...
Here is a poem by Robert Hampson ["the memory of possible mourning"] which has no punctuation marks except one dot in the end. In order to get the meaning, I would like a native speaker place some...
What does the term "compound theft" mean? How can one define it? Here it is the context: Two burglars who had been active in south-western France for 18 months were taken into custody by police after...
