chop down a tree

The war itself has several names, including the famine war (ḥarb al-majā'a) and seferberlik, a Turkish word, meaning travel by land, that began its wartime career as a reference to military conscription but quickly became a catchword for all the calamities and suffering experienced by civilians.

Common Nighthawk... Pope (Conn[ecticut]. From the sound made by its wings while dropping through the air).

If he wanted praise, or sympathy, or the chance to talk over a sensitive subject, he turned to me. A friend told me that she sat down at her computer one day to discover that her husband had changed her screensaver to read: “Be nice to Lloyd.