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Apr 27, 2022 · What is another idiomatic word I can use in place of increase/increasing when talking about increasing punishment or penalties? For example Schools should increase punishment to stop students from cheating. Increasing penalties will stop students from misbehaving including cheating. (source: myself) Will strengthen, toughen, stiffen, or ...
Nov 15, 2022 · English (Midlands UK) Nov 15, 2022. #3. In most schools this is "The teacher gave him fifty (or a hundred, etc.) lines (to write)". At my secondary school the lines had to be written on a specific type of paper: large pages of twenty lines per side in a distinctively visible blue colour so we couldn't do the punishment in the classroom -- it ...
Jun 18, 2022 · I earned my first bloody nose at five and my first black eye at six. Mother jokes were never allowed, and grandmother jokes earned the harshest punishment that may little fists could administer. (J.D. Vance, 'Hillbilly Elegy') Hello everyone, what's meant by the harshest punishment that my...
Oct 3, 2007 · Oct 3, 2007. #1. Teachers should try to find out before they hand out a punishment. They should try ahead of time to get to know their pupils. According to an online dictionary, "hand out" means to give or distribute; pass out: People were handing out leaflets on every corner. I think "hand out" used in my example and the one used in the online ...
Jan 28, 2011 · Jan 28, 2011. #2. You'll want the plural (punishments), but this a more natural way to express the idea without repeating "punish": There are many ways to punish people.
Aug 7, 2023 · Can we say that in this example: "Peasants gathered in the streets, calling for the blood of the last Spanish governor, Don Rafael Montero." people were demanding specifically the execution, not just punishment. Because call for- to demand + blood = demand the death.
Oct 24, 2008 · in the middle of the sea about 120 miles west of the southern tip of Florida. As horrible and unjust as this punishment must have been, a greater plight lurked at Fort Jefferson. The warm, humid climate was a perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes.Again and again, these pests spread yellow fever germs.
Nov 30, 2012 · It literally means "is able to be punished" or "is authorised to be punished", e.g. If a child is naughty in our school he [may be punished]/ [is punishable] by placing him in detention. Here is an example (invented by me) that uses both forms. "In the past, in our country, murder has invariably been punished by death.
Jun 10, 2022 · English - US. Jun 10, 2022. #2. "Escaped punishment" means that the suspect received no punishment, perhaps because he was acquitted. "Escaped from punishment," if we used it at all, would mean that he escaped while being punished. H.
Apr 28, 2022 · I wonder whether desert may once have had a wider meaning than punishment - 'something deserved', good or bad. Someone with OED access may be able to help. John is Prince John (boo, hiss). A Saxon lady has turned down a dinner invitation, which someone of his status would expect to be accepted. His sense of entitlement would be offended.
