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Very cheaply, for little money, especially for less than something is worth. For example, “I know a man ... sold a goodly manor for a song” (Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, 3:2). This idiom alludes to the pennies given to street singers or to the small cost of sheet music. [Late 1500s]

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Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

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So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
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I still do find it a tremendously useful device to invent a character and have the character sing the song.
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In 2012, as a 10th grader, Lean says he recorded his first legitimate song, “Hurt.”
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Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
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He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
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All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
At this moment the tinkling of a mule's bells, mingled with the song of the muleteer, came on the air.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Gushing waters thrilled the ears with the sweetness of an old familiar song.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne

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MEANINGS

WORD GAMES

LEARN

WRITING

WORD OF THE DAY

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QUIZ YOURSELF ON “THEIR,” “THERE,” AND “THEY’RE”

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