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Regina Tuyen Le
2021-08-01 02:08
Squint at (someone or something) verb phrase
Try to see better with your eyes partially closed
My father has been squinting at the phone screen for 5 minutes trying to read the news.
The old lady was squinting at the photographs in the museum.
My mom suggested that I should stop squinting at the computer and wear my glasses.
This idiom is often used to express that you should accept an unpleasant situation or event because you cannot change it.
Once something has been done, you can do nothing but face the consequences.
The verb "squint" should be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase comes from the mid 16th century (in the meaning ‘squinting’, as in squint-eyed): simplification of asquint.
Do you see anything wrong?
1. A type of soup that contains small pieces of pasta shaped into letters.
2. A mixture of letters which make you confused to understand, usually acronyms or abbreviations
1. I enjoyed alphabet soup when I was young.
2. The name of the organization is an alphabet soup of A.D.B which stands for Asian Development Bank.
