Turmoil vs Beer - What's the difference?
turmoil | beer |
A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title=]http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18181971 England 1-0 Ukraine]
, passage=Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.}}
Harassing labour; trouble; disturbance.
* Shakespeare
*, chapter=7
, title= (obsolete) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
(obsolete) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
* Spenser
(uncountable) An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer . […]”}} (uncountable) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
(uncountable) A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.
(countable) A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.
(countable) A variety of the above beverages.
To give beer to (someone)
* Sidney Daryl, His First Brief. A Comedietta'' in 1870 , Clement Scott, ''Drawing-room Plays and Parlour Pantomimes , Robson and Sons,
* 2010 , Steve Brezenhoff, The Absolute Value of -1 , Carolrhoda Lab,
* 2013 , Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World , Hatchette Books Ireland,
* 2013 , R. D. Power, Forbidden ,
As nouns the difference between turmoil and beer
is that turmoil is a state of great disorder or uncertainty while beer is .As a verb turmoil
is (obsolete|intransitive) to be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.turmoil
English
Noun
(en-noun)- And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil , / A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
Synonyms
* chaos, disorderVerb
(en verb)- (Milton)
- It is her fatal misfortune to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.
External links
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English
(wikipedia beer)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bere, from (etyl) .Noun
citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer . […]”}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* beer and skittles * beer belly * beer-bust * beer can * beered-up * beer garden * beer goggles * beer gut * beer hall * beerily * beerish * beerless * beer mat * beer muscles * beer parlour * beery * bock beer * champagne taste on a beer budget * craft beer * cry in one's beer * ginger beer * keg beer * ice beer * near beer * root beer * small beer * spruce beer (beer)Descendants
* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l)Verb
(en verb)pages 303–304:
- No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.
page 121:
- “Beer me!” said Goody. “Also your weed is shit. Where’s the good stuff, dude?”
page 124:
- I heard Patty Marsh yelling, ‘Beer him, Eleanor!’
page 39:
- “Beer me!” To his astonishment she obeyed his command, appearing a minute later with a glass of beer and a wry smile.