I don't hear ambiguity with an "already," but try: "I really enjoy these shelled pistachios" - I might interpret that as some pistachios that have shells and where I've got to remove the shells. "De-shelled" would …

Dec 30, 2013 · How does one remove the ambiguity of shelled peanuts? Must one just not use the adjective 'shelled' in relation to peanuts, or other nuts, or shellfish?

Oct 12, 2012 · Very similar to shelled vs. unshelled in reference to nuts. Both of them can refer to nuts either with or without shells, depending on whether the word is used as a verb or an adjective, which …

Nov 2, 2015 · Growing up in Canada, in addition to "trick-or-treating" as a description of kids' activities on Hallowe'en evening, I often heard the verb "shell out", conjugated as "shelling out" or "shellouting...

Jul 13, 2022 · Conversely, if someone is a hard-shelled curmudgeon but deep down is kind, you can say "there is more than meets the eye" to suggest that they might be a kind person who puts up a front.

The aphorism was coined by the Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Don Meredith, who later became a sports commentator for the TV show Monday Night Football in 1970. 17 December 1970, Ada (OK) Evening …

Aug 1, 2015 · Both these foraminiferans (shelled Protozoa) and ammonites (extinct shelled cephalopods) bear spiral shells resembling a ram's, and Ammon's, horns. The regions of the …

I have the following sentence: Joe got everyone's attention and started to speak. Should it be everyone's, everyones' or everyones?

Apr 15, 2019 · 3 I’m 75 years young and I remember vividly in Aston Birmingham early 1950s saying do you want to come and play up on the Bomb Peck meaning shelled houses and flattened land.

The immediate image I had when I saw this question was of the scene in For Whom the Bell Tolls where El Sordo and his youthful companions on a mountain top try to fight off a fascist airplane as it makes …