{"id":32214,"date":"2018-04-07T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=32214"},"modified":"2018-04-07T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T15:48:10","slug":"english-what-does-derring-do-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-derring-do-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English: what does <i>derring-do<\/i> mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, new vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions <i>derring-do<\/i>.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"color:indianred;background-color:blanchedalmond;padding:16px;font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;white-space:pre-wrap\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">derring-do (noun):<\/span><\/p>\n<p>boldness; decisive bravery.<\/p>\n<p>Jumping the mud puddle in his white suit was an act of derring-do.<br \/>\n<\/br>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour, Lorna (editor). <i>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus<\/i>. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2006.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/cssref\/css_colors.asp\">w3schools.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, new vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions derring-do. derring-do (noun): boldness; decisive bravery. Jumping the mud puddle in his white suit was an act of derring-do. Source: Gilmour, Lorna (editor). Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-derring-do-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: what does <i>derring-do<\/i> mean?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,2825],"tags":[2837],"class_list":["post-32214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-uncategorized","category-vocabulary","tag-what-is-derring-do-definition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32214"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32228,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32214\/revisions\/32228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}