Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: Wiktionary:Requests for deletion

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en] Track the most recent changes to the wiki in this feed. Wiktionary:Requests for deletion 29 Jun 2011, 8:57 pm one too many: hmm, keep?? ← Older revision Revision as of 19:57, 29 June 2011 Line 3,943: Line 3,943: ::: When SemperBlotto's around he's generally more '''bold''' about deleting things that should be deleted. I just don't have the confidence to do the same. —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 11:31, 29 June 2011 (UTC) ::: When SemperBlotto's around he's generally more '''bold''' about deleting things that should be deleted. I just don't have the confidence to do the same. —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 11:31, 29 June 2011 (UTC) :This is not an adverb. It is a simple fused-head nominal construction, with the omitted noun potentially being anything. The idiom is that, in the absence of strong contrary context, the omitted noun is {{term|drink||a portion of an alcoholic beverage}}. It is also often an example of {{term|meiosis}} as the excess quantity is often more than one. It is euphemistic. The same analysis would apply to [[a few too many]], except it is less meiotic. OTOH, the idiomatic usage may only rarely occur except after a form of {{term|have}} so it should perhaps be moved to [[[[have one too many]]]] (and [[[[have a few too many]]]] be added). [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 13:12, 29 June 2011 (UTC) :This is not an adverb. It is a simple fused-head nominal construction, with the omitted noun potentially being anything. The idiom is that, in the absence of strong contrary context, the omitted noun is {{term|drink||a portion of an alcoholic beverage}}. It is also often an example of {{term|meiosis}} as the excess quantity is often more than one. It is euphemistic. The same analysis would apply to [[a few too many]], except it is less meiotic. OTOH, the idiomatic usage may only rarely occur except after a form of {{term|have}} so it should perhaps be moved to [[[[have one too many]]]] (and [[[[have a few too many]]]] be added). [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 13:12, 29 June 2011 (UTC)   + ::Probably keep, it has implied meaning, the meaning DCDuring points out, and is thus "its full meaning cannot be easily derived from the meaning of its separate components". [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 19:56, 29 June 2011 (UTC) You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.