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[wringing wet] adj. Wet through and through; soaked; dripping. •/He was wringing wet because he was caught in the rain without an umbrella./ •/He was wringing wet after working in the fields in the hot sun./

[write home about]{v. phr.} To become especially enthusiastic or excited about; boast about. — Often used after "to". •/Mary’s trip to the World’s Fair was something to write home about./ •/Joe did a good enough job of painting but it was nothing to write home about./ •/"That was a dinner worth writing home about!" said Bill coming out of the restaurant./

[write off]{v. phr.} 1. To remove (an amount) from a business record; cancel (a debt); accept as a loss. •/If a customer dies when he owes the store money, the store must often write it off./ Compare: CHARGE OFF. 2. To accept (a loss or trouble) and not worry anymore about it; forget. •/Mr. Brown had so much trouble with the new TV set that he finally wrote it off and bought a new one./ •/Jim’s mistake cost him time and money, but he wrote it off to experience./ Compare: CHARGE OFF(2). Contrast: CHALK UP(2). To say that (something) will fail or not be good; believe worthless. •/Just because the boys on the team are young, don’t write the team off./ Compare: COUNT OUT.

[write-off]{n.} A loss. •/This last unfortunate business venture of ours is an obvious write-off./

[writer’s cramp]{n.} Pain in the fingers or hand caused by too much writing. •/Holding your pencil too tightly for too long often gives you writer’s cramp./ Often used humorously to stress the idea that you have been doing a lot of writing./ •/By the time Mary finished her Christmas cards she complained of writer’s cramp./

[writer’s block]{n. phr.} A condition of being unable to write; a period when the words just won’t come. •/One of the more common problems writers occasionally experience is a writer’s block that may last a shorter or a longer time./ •/They say that the reason for Ernest Hemingway’s suicide was a severe and seemingly endless writer’s block./

[write-up]{n.} A report or story in a newspaper or magazine. •/There was a write-up of the accident in the newspaper./ •/I read an interesting write-up about the President in a new magazine./

[write up]{v.} 1. To write the story of; describe in writing; give a full account of. •/Reporters from many newspapers are here to write up the game./ •/The magazine is writing up the life of the President./ 2. To put something thought or talked about into writing; finish writing (something). •/John took notes of what the teacher said in class and he wrote them up when he got home./ •/The author had an idea for a story when he saw the old house, and he wrote it up later./

[writing] or [handwriting on the wall] {n. phr.}, {literary} A warning; a message of some urgency. •/"This nuclear plant is about to explode, I think," the chief engineer said. "We’d better get out of here in a hurry, the handwriting is on the wall."/