wireline adj. of communication or technology, connected by cable or wire; the opposite of wireless. Etymological Note: From the noun “wireline,” defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “a telegraph or telephone line of wire” and dating to 1934, but reinforced by more recent repeated back-formation from “wireless.” (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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You know the expression fly in the ointment: It’s that glaring typo on an impressive resume or that first scratch on a brand-new car—the one little flaw that spoils it all. This phrase goes all the way back to the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes! And...
The phrase a fly in the ointment means “a small thing that ruins something larger.” The phrase goes all the way back to a passage in Ecclesiastes: “Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savor.” Here the word...