
word choice - "At the beginning" or "in the beginning"? - English ...
Are both expressions "At the beginning" "In the beginning" valid and equivalent? The first "seems wrong" to me, but it has more Google results.
At Night or In the Night? - English Language & Usage Stack …
Aug 8, 2013 · The bottom line is "it's idiomatic" as mentioned but I can offer the below rationale: 1. The origin of "at night" to indicate a point of time and the usage of prepositions "in" and"at" In …
Origin of "skin in the game" - English Language & Usage Stack …
Apr 14, 2017 · The idiomatic expression to have "skin in the game" means to have incurred monetary risk by being involved in achieving a goal. In the phrase, "skin" is a synecdoche for …
idioms - What is the meaning of 'in the ether'? - English Language ...
Mar 19, 2013 · In the following sentence, what is the meaning of 'in the ether'? Rather than calling some function in the ether and passing arguments, we call a method on one particular object …
word choice - "on the train" or "in the train"? - English Language ...
Being on the train has the sense of being aboard or being a passenger on a conveyance. Being in the train has the sense of being a component member of the train. Keep in mind that the word …
word choice - "On the last week" or "In the last week"? - English ...
I'm planning a trip. My plane lands on the 29th of August. Should I say: I'll arrive on the last week of August. or I'll arrive in the last week of August. Web searches show that both prepositi...
word choice - "In the Internet" vs. "on the Internet" - English ...
Oct 18, 2012 · I suppose the large number of "in" prepositions in the phrase can be explained like this: in many languages, including Russian we use the preposition which can be translated into …
word choice - "In the hope of" vs. "with the hope of" - English ...
Both are grammatical. There seems to be little difference in meaning, but a detailed corpus search might show that they were used in different contexts. What corpus evidence does show is that …
On Saturday afternoon or in the Saturday afternoon?
Sep 16, 2011 · The choice of prepositions depends upon the temporal context in which you're speaking. "On ~ afternoon" implies that the afternoon is a single point in time; thus, that …
grammaticality - "on the link," "in the link," or "at the link ...
Oct 16, 2020 · Which is the correct usage: Follow the instructions on the link mentioned above. Follow the instructions in the link mentioned above. Follow the instructions at the link …