Word of the week

Published January 23, 2016

Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘A fair cow’, a new entrant to the Oxford Dictionary

A fair cow

Definition: A particularly unpleasant or difficult situation or thing such as “This heat’s a fair cow!”

Examples: “A fair cow, mate. Never been so embarrassed in my life.”

“Bruce was right; this country’s a fair cow!”

“Two of the quarries were in fair situations but the third was a fair cow.”

Published in Dawn, Young World, January 23rd, 2015

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