I feel like I’d I had bought a beetle earlier I would have kept it for longer than any other car and my dream would have been fulfilled a lot earlier in my life. Had a number of cars during this time- Various makes and models and years and they all had a problem or something. My whole perspective on life has changed. I just got my dream beetle on Friday under 48 hours ago. I just don’t want this fear to ever hold anyone back for any longer in regards to just biting the bullet and just buying the VW that you dream of. I can assure you, mine are still greater.I see some humans that want a beetle but have hesitation in buying and fear of mechanical issues…. Malathi, your job is to ensure that the bride and the groom arrive on time.ĭo not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. Please ensure that the money goes to the needy. In other words, you are taking the necessary precaution to make sure that the dog doesn’t bite the person. But in order to ensure that it doesn’t, you may choose to lock the animal up in another room. For example, you may assure your friend that your dog doesn’t bite. In other words, you are guaranteeing something. When you ‘ensure’ something, you do everything you possible can to make it happen. While ‘assure’ is mostly used to talk about people, ‘ensure’ is used to talk about things. The builder assured us that the flat would be ready by June. Figurative use from 1891 the custom itself attested from 1840s. The CEO assured everyone that there would be no layoffs. To bite the bullet is said to be 1700s military slang, from old medical custom of having the patient bite a lead bullet during an operation to divert attention from pain and reduce screaming.

When you assure your business partner, for example, that you will have the report ready by Monday, what you are doing is making a commitment to him – you are giving him your word that you will have the report ready on or before Monday. When you ‘assure’ someone of something, you are putting someone’s mind at ease by making a promise that something will be done. Although there is a tendency among some people to use the two words interchangeably, there is a difference in meaning between them. The first vowel in ‘assure’ sounds like the ‘a’ in ‘china’. With Paul Fyfield, Brendan Pardy, Junqing Tamie Tan, Shek Sinha. Speak Easy: Biting the Bullet Did a cartridge made of cow and pig fat really spark the 1857 Revolt Even contemporary accounts of the events of 1857 report this as a rumour, and some speculate that it was circulated by the wily gentlemen of Awadh. The word is pronounced ‘in-SHORE’ with the stress on the second syllable. Biting the Bullet: Directed by Lizbeth Calingasan. The first syllable of ‘ensure’ is pronounced like the word ‘in’, while the second sounds like the word ‘shore’. There are several ways of pronouncing the two words I will deal with only one here. Bullet or gun tattoos can also be used for the purpose of frightening. They seek to show strength and courage in the face of profound adversity which stands in their way and diverts them from achieving their goals. What is the difference between ‘ensure’ and ‘assure’? (K Mahadevan, Chennai) The people with the gun or bullet tattoo use this design to prove something to others. During wars, when surgeries were performed close to the battlefield, wounded soldiers were given a bullet to bite on. This was to help the patient endure the pain - and also ensure that he did not scream into the doctor’s ears. Before painkillers were invented, when a patient had to be operated on, the doctor usually gave him a piece of wood or a piece of iron to bite on. One of them is that it first began to be used in the military. The Bullet in the mouth is 3D, while the background is a print of the original. There are several explanations as to the origin of the idiom. Created by Peter Perlegas viral painting from 2016 Bite the Bullet. With another increase in the price of petrol, it’s not just the auto-drivers who are biting the bullet. You’ll just have to bite the bullet for a couple of days. Take a deep breath, and force yourself to do something that you don’t really want to. You have been avoiding it for a while, but the time has come for you to face it. A bullet behaves in exactly the same way: once its spinning, it follows a straighter path as it goes through the air, so its harder to deflect and much more likely to reach its target. When someone tells you to ‘bite the bullet’, what he is asking you to do is to be prepared to face a rather unpleasant or tough situation. This idiom has been around for several centuries, and it is mostly used in informal contexts. What is the meaning and origin of ‘bite the bullet’? (L Nagaraj, Chennai)

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