2011年5月23日 · Edit, lest I forget to confirm what other people have said: /kætʃ/ and /kæʃeɪ/ are entirely different words, "catch" and "cachet" respectively. Using either of those pronunciations to mean "cache" will most likely get you looks of blank incomprehension.

2016年2月20日 · In such context, "cachet" proposed by @Jeremy would mean "charm", "character". I am not sure that this word matches with a political debate. The expression is perhaps political cliché. For example: The phrase ‘hard-working families’ is the most loathed political cliché, according to the results of a new poll.

2015年4月9日 · In French, une cache is a hiding place, while un cachet is a seal of the kind you press into hot wax. They both come from the old French verb escachier which meant something like to press together, which is what you do both when hiding something in a small place, and putting a wax seal on an envelope.

2015年10月16日 · The word cachet (pronounced ka-SHAY'), meaning having prestige or high status, is often misspelled, and also often confused with the word cache (KASH'), which is currently most familiar to many people as the word meaning persisted data storage of temporary assets by a computer internet browser (from its older meaning as a small, hidden storage space).

2011年10月17日 · If you mean "What's the catch?" then that means you think something is too good to be true, and you're asking, "In this perfect-seeming picture, what is really wrong that I don't see?" It reminds me of a great cartoon in The New Yorker some years ago. Two birds are perched on a sign in front of a forest. The sign reads: "Bird Sanctuary".

Noad gives. clout |klout| noun 1 informal a heavy blow with the hand or a hard object : a clout on the ear. 2 informal influence or power, esp. in politics or business : I knew he carried a lot of clout.

"Cache" is borrowed from French, and should mean a store with an implied meaning of hidden but easily accessible to the "right people". Because of that I do not like using "cacher", which is the infinitive of the French verb. The uncommonly used French word would be a "cacheur".

2010年8月21日 · Most people will not notice or care if you do that. In fact, if you say that some subject is or is not your “fort”, people will look at you quizzically and perhaps even ask “do you mean FOR-tay?”. On the other hand, if you use the pronunciation “FOR-tay” those of us who know the difference may judge you to be ignorant.

2011年11月25日 · The two phrases are often used interchangeably, in a conversational context. For casual usage, cash paid is more informal and more common than cash tendered.

2011年6月17日 · Gotcha actually has several meanings. All of them can be derived from the phrase of which this is a phonetic spelling, namely "[I have] got you".