A year behind bars for Heather Cho, the daughter of the chairman of Korean Air, for her extraordinary melt-down over a packet of poorly-presented macadamia nuts. Ms Cho was also found guilty of committing acts of violence against a crew member, forcing him to kneel and hitting him with a service manual. The price of going nutshttp://econ.st/1E4tNtO
For some reason, Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google never got the memo explaining how everyone is supposed to be terrified of Microsoft. This drives Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer nuts. Ballmer, the blustery baldy who gleefully plays the role of technology's biggest villain and relishes his company's status as the world's most powerful software shop, has vowed for years that he will kill Google. But Google just keeps getting stronger. It's like they're taunting him!
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"When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts." — Larry Ellison
InBev's corporate culture is focused heavily on cost controls, so some analysts think the company would take steps to slash Anheuser's hefty marketing budget, which could harm its brands. But Mr. Brito, InBev's chief executive, "is emphatic...that they would be nuts to mess up the business Anheuser has built," said Mr. Steinman. "The smart idea is to keep what's going right at A-B."
AN APPRAISAL
Gene Wilder, a Career of Understated Nuttiness
Mr. Wilder doesn’t have many comedy descendants. He was too much of an original to copy.
サポニン【saponin】
If someone told you that you could clean your clothes with nuts, you'd probably think they were ... well, nuts瘋子.
Yet although a packet of salty peanuts probably won't get your whites spanking clean, the saponin-containing husks of "Soapnuts," can be an eco-friendly substitute for laundry detergent.
saponin
(săp'ə-nĭn, sə-pō'-)
n.
Any of various plant glucosides that form soapy lathers when mixed and agitated with water, used in detergents, foaming agents, and emulsifiers.
[From Latin sāpō, sāpōn-, hair dye, of Germanic origin.]
広く植物界に存在する、サポゲニンという多環式化合物と糖とが結合した配糖体。無定形の粉末で、水溶液はよく泡立つ。溶血作用・強心作用・利尿作用・去痰(きょたん)作用などがある。薬用に用いられるほか、...
Nuttiness - definition of nuttiness by The Free Dictionary
www.thefreedictionary.com/nuttiness
Having a flavor like that of nuts: The wild turkey often has a nutty taste when cooked. 3. Slang Crazy; idiotic: a nutty idea. nut′ti·ly adv. nut′ti·ness n.nuts
(nŭts)
Slang.adj.
- Crazy; insane.
- Extremely enthusiastic: I'm nuts about opera.
Used to express contempt, disappointment, or refusal.
[From NUT.]
nut jobnoun
noun, orig US
A mad or crazy person. (1975 —) .
Muzik 'Electric Chicken'...is a vinyl-only bucket of weird beat Hot Wings, featuring international nut jobs like Japan's Himuro...and Solar X from Russia (2001).
to spoil or damage something, or to do something wrong or badly:
I feel I've messed up my chances of becoming a great singer.
He says that his divorce has really messed his life up.
You've really messed up this time.
nuts
adj.
- Crazy; insane.
- Extremely enthusiastic: I'm nuts about opera.
Used to express contempt, disappointment, or refusal.
[From NUT.]
Pronunciation: /nʌts /
informal
[ PREDICATIVE]
Definition of nuts in English:
ADJECTIVE
EXCLAMATION
(often nuts to you (or him etc.))Back to topPhrases
noun [C] INFORMAL
1 a person who is mentally ill or who behaves in a very foolish or stupid or strange way:
What kind of nut would leave a car on a railway track?
2 someone who is extremely enthusiastic about a particular activity or thing:
Ian's a tennis nut - he plays every day.
See also nuts (FOOLISH).
nutty Show phonetics
adjective INFORMAL
crazy, foolish or strange:
She's got some nutty idea about setting up a school for cats.
nutter Show phonetics
noun [C] UK INFORMAL
someone who is crazy, foolish or strange:
He's a bit of a nutter.
emphasize Show phonetics
verb [T]
1 (UK USUALLY -ise) to show or state that something is particularly important or worth giving attention to:
[+ question word] I'd just like to emphasize how important it is for people to learn foreign languages.
[+ that] He emphasized that all the people taking part in the research were volunteers.
You can use italics or capitals to emphasize a word in a piece of writing.
2 to make something more obvious:
Tight jeans will only emphasize any extra weight that you are carrying.
emphasis Show phonetics
noun [C or U] plural emphases
1 the particular importance or attention that you give to something:
I think we should put as much emphasis on preventing disease as we do on curing it.
Schools here put/place/lay great emphasis on written work and grammar.
2 the extra force that you give to a word or part of a word when you are saying it:
The emphasis is on the final syllable.
Where do you put the emphasis in the word 'controversy'?
emphatic Show phonetics
adjective
done or said in a strong way and without any doubt:
Poland reached the final of the championship yesterday with an emphatic 5-0 victory over Italy.
The minister has issued an emphatic rejection of the accusation.
emphatically Show phonetics
adverb
Johnson has emphatically denied the allegations against him.
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