Are both expressions at the beginning in the beginning valid and equivalent Then last year alone can be used as an adverbial group in a sentence The first seems wrong to me, but it has more google results.
The choice of prepositions depends upon the temporal context in which you're speaking Then you may assume that this was shortened to On ~ afternoon implies that the afternoon is a single point in time
In ~ afternoon suggests that the afternoon is. The oxford dictionary of english idioms says shoot yourself in the foot inadvertently make a situation worse for yourself Demonstrate gross incompetence the free dictionary online has fig To be the author of one's own misfortune
I am a master at shooting myself in the foot Again, he shot himself in the foot by saying too much to the press Both, but they are used differently Being on the train is the most common use
If you want to describe your position, you could say that you are in the train, for example The train has derailed, i have a broken leg You can find me in the train. Which is the correct usage
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In some cases the office means the place where i work which could mean a building or a suite in a building In other cases the office refers to a particular room The context of the answer depends on the context of the question. The idiomatic expression to have skin in the game means to have incurred monetary risk by being involved in achieving a goal
In the phrase, skin is a synecdoche for the person involved, a. Ether, or æther, was the mysterious substance once thought to suffuse the universe and be the medium that propagated light (and radio waves once they were discovered) Before that, it was the material that suffused the realm of the gods So, to say that something is in the ether means that it is something being communicated from place to place
In the last year, last year, in the past year how do such things come into being We may assume that the beginnings were something like this