query: What is the etymology of saying "when" to stop pouring or serving?
positive_passages.docid: 149677
positive_passages.text: How did "When" become the customary answer to "say when"?
negative_passages.docid: 46015
negative_passages.text: Using 'a bit of water / wine ... ' vs 'a drop of water / wine' to describe a small quantity of liquid
negative_passages.docid: 117530
negative_passages.text: "Stopped talking" and "stopped to talk"
negative_passages.docid: 102242
negative_passages.text: What part of speech is "down" in "Put your pencils down"?
negative_passages.docid: 31413
negative_passages.text: Is there a name for when the same word is used at the beginning and end of different phrases/sentences?
negative_passages.docid: 145714
negative_passages.text: What is the correct pronunciation of the word “processes”?
negative_passages.docid: 95507
negative_passages.text: Is there a name for this type of sentence structure: "She looks as though she's been poured into her clothes, and forgot to say 'when'"?
negative_passages.docid: 85137
negative_passages.text: How to refer to a period of time?
negative_passages.docid: 73633
negative_passages.text: Spoonerisms in the English language
negative_passages.docid: 133369
negative_passages.text: As, when or while?
negative_passages.docid: 24421
negative_passages.text: Etymology of "cut someone some slack"
negative_passages.docid: 111455
negative_passages.text: When can we omit the preposition "on" before weekdays
negative_passages.docid: 71334
negative_passages.text: Equivalent of local idiom "The potter drinks from a broken jar"
negative_passages.docid: 93536
negative_passages.text: A correct preposition - account closed due/by/at 12th of May
negative_passages.docid: 144619
negative_passages.text: When and how did "momentarily" come to mean "in a moment", rather than "for a moment"?
negative_passages.docid: 144672
negative_passages.text: discerning between until and by
negative_passages.docid: 148699
negative_passages.text: "Stop working" vs "stopped to work"