Across the world’s languages, nouns are surprisingly chameleonic creatures, shape-shifting and category-hopping in ways that can make your head spin.

Daytime fishing during the summer in Arkansas is sadistic, but fishing at night can be sublime.

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Being a novice, Chandru didn’t know how to rein in the horse. The expression ‘rein in’ can be used in other contexts as well.

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Daytime fishing during the summer in Arkansas is sadistic, but fishing at night can be sublime.

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