Domande riguardo a frasi esempio con, spiegazione d'utilizzo di "Nightmare"s

A: "Vexed to nightmare" is a poetic or literary expression, not a common idiomatic phrase. However, let's break it down:

Vexed:

- Means being annoyed, troubled, or irritated
- Can imply a sense of frustration or distress

To nightmare:

- Implies escalation or progression from being vexed to a worse state
- Nightmares typically evoke feelings of terror, anxiety, or horror

Interpretation:

"Vexed to nightmare" suggests that a situation or issue has progressed from being merely annoying or frustrating to becoming a full-blown, terrifying, or unbearable ordeal.

A: "Nightmare fuel" is something that can give you nightmares because of how disturbing it is. Like a horror movie, or a scary story. "Serious" intensifies it.

A: something scary or something that unsettles you that you may see in a nightmare or expect to have a nightmare because of seeing. Like watching a scary movie and having a nightmare that night

A: It's a bad dream, where you sometimes just wake up scared or screaming

A: it means here that B’s nightmare will be better than person A’s nightmare. It’s like “I’ll show you! my nightmare will be good”

A: Running home in the rainstorm without an umbrella was a nightmare.
She fell asleep in the middle of a study session and had a nightmare about failing the final exam.
He woke up from the nightmare, only to realize he was still dreaming.
This vacation is turning into a nightmare. Why did I ever agree to it?
The child recalled every detail of the nightmare very clearly.

A: I just had an awful nightmare last night.
Did you have a night mare last night?

A: "I had the worst nightmare last night"

"It was a nightmare trying to get to work on time because of all of the traffic."

"What a nightmare" this is sometimes a reaction people may say

A: I had... is correct. I've had... is used when you don't know (or don't specifically say in the sentence) when in the past it happened, or if you want to talk about many instances in the past all together.

I had a terrible nightmare last night. It happened at around 2am.

Gasp! Oh, I think I've just had a terrible nightmare. What a bad sleep that was.

I've had a lot of terrible nightmares this past week. I've been tired all week.

A: A nightmare is a scary dream.

A: They are basically the same.
Nightmare has a slightly more scary connotation however

A: I had a bad dream last night=
I had a nightmare last night

A: Present perfect: I know I have been sick and I know it has been serious, but never, even in my nightmares, have I thought of surgery.

Past simple: I knew I was sick and I knew it was serious, but never, even in my nightmares, did I think of surgery.

A: A nightmare for some.

For others, a savior I come. [Or 'saviour' in British English]

My hands, cold and bleak. It is warm hearts they seek.

Who am I?

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A: 'I shudder to think' is for conditional situations.

I shudder to think what might happen if Britain leaves the EU.

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A: "where" or "in which" would be acceptable

You wouldn't use "that" because you're not describing the nightmare itself, you're describing what happens IN the nightmare

A: Your sentence is grammatically correct, but we would usually say: I would like this to only be a nightmare. Or: I wish this were only a nightmare.

A: “What did you dream about last night? You seemed to have had a nightmare.” or “What did you dream about last night? You seemed to be having a nightmare.”