User talk:Overlordnat1

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To-do list

I just had a basic crack at some of your list. Feel free to improve:

• book of prime entry
• cut along
• get out of it
• look in
• ozzie

Equinox ◑ 19:21, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Excellent job, especially finding quotes for ‘ozzie’. Thanks! Overlordnat1 (talk) 21:34, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Re "not much in it": is this the same "in" as "there might be something in that" (i.e. good idea)? Thus should be covered at "in" somehow? Equinox ◑ 10:34, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

That’s an interesting take on things. I was thinking about using ‘in it’ to refer to a difference in time or distance, such as ‘I nearly travelled as far as I did last time but there’s not much in it’ or ‘I nearly went as quickly as last time but there’s not much in it’ but if we take it to mean that the distance is unimportant then I suppose it is the same sense, as ‘there’s something in it’ means ‘there’s something important in it’. On the other hand you could replace ‘it’ with something like ‘what he’s saying’ in the sentence ‘there’s something in it’ but what could you replace ‘it’ with in the phrase ‘there’s not much in it’? ‘not much in it’ and ‘something in it’ both feel idiomatic rather than SOP to me but perhaps they could be dealt with by adding to the in or in it entries? Overlordnat1 (talk) 10:58, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Admin powers

Hey. Would you like to get admin powers? I can set up a vote for you GreyishWorm (talk) 12:01, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

It would be an honour to get such a promotion, as it were. If I did become an administrator, I’d behave consensually and responsibly. I hereby accept your offer. Overlordnat1 (talk) 12:16, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Awesome. Please accept at Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2022-11/User:Overlordnat1 for admin GreyishWorm (talk) 13:56, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

• Ah well, you probably won't quite make it. I'll do another nomination in a year or so (under a different username, naturally) Flackofnubs (talk) 12:25, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

macaroni

Can you change the first ===Etymology=== to ===Etymology 1=== and "nest" everything inside both etymology sections accordingly? Thanks! Amusingly, I noticed this not by seeing your edit, but by happening to be going through a semi-regular WT:TODO check for instances of "Etymology 2" without a preceding "Etymology 1", ha. - -sche (discuss) 18:59, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

-sche Done (I think). --Overlordnat1 (talk) 20:43, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Ring ring goes the bell...

Grow up, this is not elementary school. This kind of edit summary ain't doing it.

Where did you get that from, that people calling for Israel to leave the occupied territories but still support its continued existence don’t normally consider themselves to be Zionist, nor are they usually considered to be such by others?

I mean, there are whole parties like Yesh Atid or Meretz which show reserves to further colonization the West Bank, yet still refer to themselves as Zionist. Shoshin000 (talk) 14:04, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

On top of that, just continuation of a Jewish state in Israel in its current territory or Israeli expansion is semantically redundant. There is no 'or'. Israeli expansion by itself implies the continuation of a state in the area. It's like saying "paying with money or cash". Shoshin000 (talk) 14:07, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

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fairy chips

Hello Overlordnat1,

Does the entry that I created look accurate? mynewfiles (talk) 05:15, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Looks great thanks! Overlordnat1 (talk) 06:12, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you kindly. mynewfiles (talk) 06:21, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

to get someone at it

Hi, you seem a regular in the Tea Room. No one commented on my entry in the October tea room (the last entry, on "to get someone at it"). I'm English and I gave my understanding of this phrase based on my own use, but this is not in Wiktionary and most dictionaries don't have it. I mentioned an entry in the OED that might be connected, but I'm not 100% sure. Do you think Wiktionary should have an entry "to get someone at it" as a separate entry? 86.168.46.85 13:16, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi. I just read your comment and I don’t see why you shouldn’t create it, especially if you have supporting quotes. I’m unaware of the phrase myself but from what you wrote it looks like it can be a synonym of ‘put someone out’. Overlordnat1 (talk) 13:23, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I'll work out how to do that. 86.168.46.85 13:45, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Is my entry correctly done at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/get_someone_at_it? I removed a reference to "gotten" as I believe it may be a UK-only phrase. 86.168.46.85 13:59, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

I've reformatted it with links to Google Books, collapsible quotations and links to conjugated forms of the phrase and to the Wikipedia page of the author. I might add Green's Dictionary of Slang as a reference too[1]. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 08:20, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. That's excellent. 86.164.110.86 18:33, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

parasite bay

Hi, if you're familiar with this term, I wonder whether it would be possible to make a more understandable usage example? It looks so odd and incongruous to the uninitiated. I thought it was random nonsense or misplaced, and the first pages of Google search "parasite bay" are all for the geographical bay. Also, even a search for "a parasite bay" produces vanishingly few relevant results. Mihia (talk) 15:34, 16 December 2024 (UTC)