See Also: accidental falls(medicine)
Falls (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Churchill Falls(encyclopedia)
Iguazu Falls(encyclopedia)
Kaieteur Falls(encyclopedia)
Niagara Falls(encyclopedia)
Sioux Falls(encyclopedia)
Victoria Falls(encyclopedia)
Yosemite Falls(encyclopedia)
Angel Falls(dictionary)

Falls Road (oh) and seriously (iou)


Falls Road (oh)



the Falls Road
a street in the Roman Catholic part of Belfast in Northern Ireland where a lot of fighting has taken place since the 1960s.
-see also Shankhill Road

seriously (iou)



seriously adverb. LME.
[from SERIOUS + -LY2.]
In a serious manner; with earnest thought or application; with serious intent; in earnest, not lightly or superficially. Also (introducing a sentence), to speak sincerely, not trivially or facetiously. LME.
G. Vidal Do you seriously believe a man can predict the future? A. Brookner He ate seriously, his eyes cast down.
To a serious degree or extent. M18.
W. S. Burroughs Those so seriously wounded they could not live.
Very, really, substantially (as intensifier). colloq. L20.
Sunday Times You have to be seriously rich to shop at..London's leading antique dealer.
Phrases: take seriously be serious in one's dealings with or attitude towards; regard as serious.