Expect
81when do you expect...? — what/how/when etc/do you expect...? spoken phrase used for telling someone in a slightly annoyed way that something is not possible or reasonable How do you expect me to guess what you’re thinking? Thesaurus: ways of emphasizing when you are… …
82Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend — is a song recorded by Lobo and released as a single in 1972. Don t Expect Me to Be Your Friend reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent two weeks atop the Easy Listening chart in February 1973.[1] The single was Lobo s third easy… …
83except vs expect — Except is usually used as a preposition or conjunction, which means not including. For example: I teach every day except Sundays. Expect is a verb, which we use when we think something is likely to happen, or someone is likely to do or be… …
84what can you expect from a hog but a grunt? — (USA) This means that you can t expect people to behave in a way that is not in their character a hog is a pig , so an unrefined person can t be expected to behave in a refined way …
85as you might expect — as you might expect/imagine/spoken phrase used for showing that you do not think that something is surprising As you might expect, this top of the range model is not cheap. As you might imagine, the Conservatives are delighted at Blair’s… …
86lead one to expect — index promise (raise expectations) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
87what can you expect from a hog but a grunt? — (USA) This means that you can t expect people to behave in a way that is not in their character a hog is a pig , so an unrefined person can t be expected to behave in a refined way. (Dorking School Dictionary) …
88except vs expect — Except is usually used as a preposition or conjunction, which means not including. For example: I teach every day except Sundays. Expect is a verb, which we use when we think something is likely to happen, or someone is likely to do or be… …
89be too much to expect — spoken used for saying that you think something is possible or reasonable even though someone else is unlikely to do it or refuses to do it I guess it s too much to expect that you ll phone when you arrive …
90when the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak — A traditional way of predicting whether the summer will be wet or dry on the basis of whether the oak or the ash is first to come into leaf in the spring. 1852 Notes & Queries 1st ser. V. 581 When the oak comes out before the ash, there will be… …