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Good Word Discussion • Meliorate
• meliorate •
Pronunciation: mee-lyê-rayt • Hear it!

Part of Speech: Verb, transitive

Meaning: Make better, improve.

Notes: Today we get a tip on how to economiz...

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Idioms • Re: All ends up
Not the same, but I've always liked the idea that you can scrub down or up, but you and only clean up.

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Idioms • Re: All ends up
Thanks. All these idioms with 'up' involve the idea of inversion in some way.

A different idiom is 'to end up', i.e. to finally arrive at some place, state or action.

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Good Word Discussion • Monomania
Good Word for 4/28/2026:• monomania •
Pronunciation: mah-nê-may-ni-yê • Hear it!

Part of Speech: Noun, mass (no plural)

Meaning: A fixation on or obsession with a sing...

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Idioms • Re: All ends up
There is 'belly-up', meaning to fail. The business went belly-up. Not the same as bellying up to the bar. Though too much of the latter can lead to the former.

There's also 'bottoms-up' from drinking to the last drop, which could mean the end of something else, I suppose.

I guess the nautical 'go bottom up', which means keel over, would fit, too. Turning turtle is ...

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