BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Thursday said that no individual or force will be allowed to split Taiwan from China, and that there is no room for "Taiwan ...

For “ick”, you see, is what people say after a revolting experience like finding a fly in the soup. They literally go: “Ick” ...

See? “By” originally means “bye” or byway. That’s why, in fact, some people still spell “by the by” as “by the bye”. By the way, “that is by the by or bye” in this sense (secondary) is an idiom that ...