Calls From A Pasture Nyt (2024)

FAQs

What is best as an idiom in the nyt? ›

The word “Best, in an idiom” is CRÈME, as in “crème de la crème.”

[What's more, one of those friends won the lottery right after solving it — coincidence? I think not!] is an instance of POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC, or “after this, therefore because of this.”

The theme revealer is LATERAL SYMMETRY, 62a. [Feature of this puzzle's grid and the answers to the six starred clues]. The grid's got left/right symmetry and so do all the letters in MAUI, HAWAII, “WAIT, WHAT?”, MAMMA MIA, HOITY-TOITY, “MWA-HA-HA,” and MAXIMUM. This theme is brought to you by TOYOTA.

"What goes up must come down," e.g.

The answer is axiom.

The lottery paradox arises from Henry E. Kyburg Jr. considering a fair 1,000-ticket lottery that has exactly one winning ticket. If that much is known about the execution of the lottery, it is then rational to accept that some ticket will win.

Today, Mega Millions uses 70 white balls and 25 bonus balls, whereas Powerball uses 69 white balls and 26 bonus balls. Powerball has 292,201,338 outcomes, making it slightly easier to win than Mega Millions.

The crosswords are designed to increase in difficulty throughout the week, with the easiest on Monday and the most difficult on Saturday. The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Thursday-plus" in difficulty.

What are the grey boxes in NYT crossword? ›

Black - Letters entered in the default pen mode. Gray - Letters entered in pencil mode. Blue - Letters that have been confirmed with Check.

Letters written on a bottle of poison, in the cartoons

The answer is xxx.

US, informal. : in a very short period of time : in an instant. He was down the stairs in a New York minute.

Definition and Meaning: All The Best

The expression “all the best” is a way of saying goodbye and wishing someone success.

An idiom is a phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a meaning you wouldn't be able to deduce from the meanings of the individual words. It's essentially the verbal equivalent of using the wrong math formula but still getting the correct answer. The phrase “kill two birds with one stone” is an example of an idiom.

You say at the best of times when you are making a negative or critical comment to emphasize that it is true even when the circ*mstances are as favourable as possible.