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The Edge

Director: Lee TamahoriWriter: David MametDirector of Photography:Donald M. McAlpineEditor:Neil TravisMusic:Jerry GoldsmithProduction Designer:Wolf KroegerProducer:Art LinsonTwentieth Century…

Brewer's: Razor

Hewmg blocks with a razor. Livy relates how Tarquinius Priscus, defying the power of Attus Navius, the augur, said to him, “Tell me, if you are so wise, whether I can do what I am now…

Maugham, Somerset

(Encyclopedia) Maugham, Somerset (William Somerset Maugham)Maugham, Somersetmôm [key], 1874–1965, English writer, b. Paris. He was noted as an expert storyteller and a master of the technique of…

Brewer's: Occam's Razor

Entia non sunt multiplicanda (entities are not to be multiplied). With this axiom Occam dissected every question as with a razor. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer…

Brewer's: Palermo Razors

Razors of supreme excellence, made in Palermo. It is a rayser, and that's a very good one, It came lately from Palermo. Damon and Pithias, i. 227. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

The Devil's Dictionary: Razor

by Ambrose Bierce RATTLESNAKEREACHRAZOR -n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mongolian to make a guy of himself, and by the Afro-American to affirm his…

Brewer's: Edge on

(See Egg on.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Edge of the SwordEdge-bone A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…

cutlery

(Encyclopedia) cutlery, various types of implements for cutting, preparing, and eating food. In addition to different kinds of knives and the steels to sharpen them, the term usually encompasses…

Brewer's: Cut Blocks with a Razor

(To). To do something astounding by insignificant means; to do something more eccentric than inexpedient. According to Dean Swift, to “make pincushions of sunbeams.” The tale is that…

edge cities

(Encyclopedia) edge cities, term designating commercial complexes that have grown up on the margins of large American cities, a development that dates mainly from the 1970s. The term was coined by…