Comments on: English idioms: to wing it (to improvise)

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:32:23 +0000

If these carry any vulgar meaning, it’s new to me. Although pretty much anything can be read as vulgar given the right situation and context.

As for the meaning of “see you” as part of the ritual of saying goodbye to someone, try looking here:

see – Definition of see verb (MEET) from Cambridge Dictionary Online: Free English Dictionary and Thesaurus http://bit.ly/byS2WW

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:30:25 +0000

Technically it would be “winged it.” But I think speakers would probably use wing with “had to,” like “I had to wing it.” Try a quick’n'dirty Google corpus search:

“winged it” – Google Search http://bit.ly/cUlD9X (about 45 000 hits)

“had to wing it” – Google Search http://bit.ly/do2a7l (over 3 000 000 hits)

“Winging it” is something we don’t usually like to do, but are forced to do because we didn’t have time or opportunity to prepare properly. So it makes sense that speakers would tend to use “had to wing it.”

By: Jermaine

Jermaine — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:10:24 +0000

Past Tense of winging it

By: Robert Garcia

Robert Garcia — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:27:04 +0000

What is the meaning of the phrases:
“See you next Tuesday.”
Or
“See you next time?” These phrases may carry a vulgar meaning very different from the actual words which make of the phrases. Thanks.

By: jithin

jithin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:32:19 +0000

This is lovely i would be happy to known these kind of words and the meaning of these every day because people can improvise thier communication by seeing and hearing it from u

Bye Jithin

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