mao-tai

Definitions

Examples

• The law professor, Benny Tai, urged the students to “retreat and take the spirit of the Umbrella Movement into the community.”

• Those facts, Paul said, indicated that Chairman Mao was a tyrannical monster whose people lived “in abject slavery.”

• Or the flier who jumped from the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai and slammed into an air conditioning unit on a roof.

• You write a lot about Hitler versus Stalin or Hitler versus Mao.

• Last April, Kishinets invited every Donetsk lover of a healthy lifestyle, as he put it, to do Tai Bo exercises in Lenin Square.

• He can't talk much, though; 'tain't good fur him; his lungs is out er kilter.

• Likewise 'tain't safe to buy mine stock till you know there's a mine.

• I don't jest sense what it is, but I know 'tain't all them things that makes a sure 'nough lady.

• "'Tain't nothin'," she choked out, and she turned hurriedly ahead of him down the path.

• "'Tain't no fair thing for the whole police force to keep worrying at a little boy like me," he said, in shame-faced apology.