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'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun' #1 (permalink) Tue May 22, 2007 15:26 pm   'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun'
 

What is the difference b/w the two below?

a. admit to the affair
b. admit the affair

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'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun' #2 (permalink) Wed May 23, 2007 16:15 pm   'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun'
 

One more thing,

"Heads up! " even when you are telling one person, should you say "heads" instead of "the head"?
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'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun' #3 (permalink) Thu May 24, 2007 3:40 am   'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun'
 

Phoo wrote:
What is the difference b/w the two below?

a. admit to the affair
b. admit the affair

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I think 'admit to the afair' = acknowledge/confess the affair while 'admit the affair' could have more than one meaning, such as 'permit the afair', etc.

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"Heads up! " even when you are telling one person, should you say "heads" instead of "the head"?


I think in this case 'Head up!' would be fine and enough Smile .

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'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun' #4 (permalink) Thu May 24, 2007 13:36 pm   'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun'
 

Hi Phoo

I would understand the same thing in your first two sentences: acknowledge/confess

"Heads up!" is a fixed expression and should not be changed to "Head up!"
"Heads up!" is a warning to a person or people about the existence of a potentially hazardous situation.

On the other hand, "Head up!" simply sounds like a literal command telling a person to raise his/her head.
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'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun' #5 (permalink) Thu May 24, 2007 13:41 pm   'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun'
 

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a. admit to the affair
b. admit the affair


With Yankee, my initial reaction to both phrases is that they are synonymous; with Haihao, I can see that the second could be taken more than one way.

PS: And 'heads up' is so fixed that it is even a noun-- a warning in advance: 'sending a heads-up to the Pentagon about possible attacks'.
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'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun' #6 (permalink) Sat May 26, 2007 10:41 am   'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun'
 

Thank you all

I also see the exparession "a heads-up" sometimes and always wondering.
It is a fixed expression!! OK I've got it! It's like "heads or tails", isn't it?
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'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun' #7 (permalink) Sat May 26, 2007 13:22 pm   'admit + noun' vs 'admit to + noun'
 

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They are both fixed expressions, but 'heads or tails' refers to the obverse and reverse of a coin. 'A heads-up' (and the other permutations we have been discussing) refers to a real head-- it warns the listener, as Yankee has already told us, and in the original, urges the listener to raise his/her head and look about for trouble.
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