Does the word 'common' and the phrase 'in abundance' mean the same thing?
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No. Something may be common, but not abundant. (Presidential pets are common in the White House. But they certainly aren't abundant.) It's also possible that something is abundant, but not common. (There's a plant that grows only on an inactive volcano in Hawaii. It's abundant -- there -- but not common because it doesn't grow anywhere else.)
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It means your wealthy, or having a run of good luck.\n\n"In the chips" is a reference to having a lot of chips in a card game.
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I've not known there to be any significant difference other than simple vernacular.\n\nOne may say.....'we must maintain production for the shift to within one percentage point of the current value'.\n\nYou could equally say; 'we need to maintain production to within one percent of the current value'.\n\nSee.....not really a whole lot of difference.\n\nAltho, using "percentage points" in lieu of "percent" is not adding information to a statement. So you'd be better off dropping the fancy phrasing and just using "percent" by itself.\n\nAs you can see....you yourself are confused by this terminology, and if anything causes more questioning and chance for misunderstandings than just using the term as intended.
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a lot, it is a very common thing
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Two words meaning the same thing.
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Trend sometimes means the same as fashion but it is also like "following the trend" as in wearing the latest styles, or fashions. They are both pretty much the same.
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In this sense "count" means make a difference.  They are important.  They matter.\nIt is a play on words.
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This does not exactly answer your question, but Shakespeare made up many of the words in his plays that have become common words today.  I can't think of one right off, but we had a big discussion about it in my upper division college English class.  There are a lot of words that we just assume have always been around, but in reality Shakespeare made them up.
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In your question you have at least tree: percent, common and language.\n All the latin words form something about the 40 percent including the one taken directly from the french.
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It sounds like it means don't overexamine things (level downward to our dullest perception) and use common sense.  Something like that.\n\nEverybody does need common sense though, if you think about it.  No matter how much higher education you have, if you don't have any common sense, you might be worse off than an auto mechanic who has common sense.  A business man with all of these degrees making choices without using common sense is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Differences in patterns are a result of common useage that is eventually accepted. Living languages are alive and growing. They also grow, shrink and change through the years.\n\nWe also say "in the house" and "at home." ..."in the factory or job" and "at work" "in the building, and "at school." These prepositions are not interchangeable in the sentences but the nouns means the same things. If you do something wrong, are you "at trouble?"
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NOUN: \n\n1. The act or practice of cooperating. \n2. The association of persons or businesses for common, usually economic, benefit
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Many of our metals are solid and homogeneous.  Homogeneous does not mean pure (only one thing) -- it only means that the composition is the same throughout the object.\n\nSo gold yes, or silver.  Also many wooden objects, glass, some food items like the center of bread...  The list goes on forever once you start thinking.
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Yes, as long as it is used correctly. "Very many" just means a lot or a large number of. For example, "There were very many people in line at the bank." This sentence provides more detail than just saying: "There were many people in line at the bank." or "There were a lot of people in line at the bank."\n\nIt can also be used in the negative sense, such as, "There were not very many books to choose from."\n\nHope this helped clarify!
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I agree that they both go hand in hand. Your charecter is what most people see the first time they see you. Your repuation is what they hear about  before they see you or what they formulate after they meet you. Each supports and equals the other.
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It's been years, but I've heard a different variation.  The one I heard (from my mother) included, "Had plenty" vs "You caught twenty?"  and "Ate sufficient" instead of "Dined sufficient."  It seems like there was a third miscommunication in the poem, but I can't remember what it was.\n\nDo these alternative phrases give you anything new to search with?\n\nI did find the site below, but it is a long story (copyright 2005), not an old poem.
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'many up'.  That's great.\n\nThank you!