Talk:agree with
Latest comment: 8 years ago by BD2412 in topic RFD
RFD[edit]
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Doesn't look like a phrasal verb to me. --SimonP45 (talk) 11:10, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
- This has been covered for some time now at agree, sense 6: "(intransitive) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well: the same food does not agree with every constitution." - -sche (discuss) 16:59, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
- Has this meaning of agree ever occurred without with and other than in the context of something ingested since, say, 1945 or 1920? DCDuring TALK 18:35, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
- I don't know; my cursory search didn't turn up any evidence that it had been used without with. I suppose we could move the sense. I think this is a circumstance where one of the definition lines of agree should then retain some kind of pointer, like
{{only in}}. - -sche (discuss) 18:57, 28 November 2015 (UTC)- That would be a good experiment to run: to see whether users - or contributors - got confused by such a presentation. Such an approach would slightly reduce the size of the verb component of such expressions, which is desirable for the highly polysemic verbs that are the most common ones used in phrasal verbs. DCDuring TALK 19:13, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
- I also don't know, but there is some use of agreeable in this sense, fwiw.—msh210℠ (talk) 20:54, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
- I don't know; my cursory search didn't turn up any evidence that it had been used without with. I suppose we could move the sense. I think this is a circumstance where one of the definition lines of agree should then retain some kind of pointer, like
- Has this meaning of agree ever occurred without with and other than in the context of something ingested since, say, 1945 or 1920? DCDuring TALK 18:35, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
- The entry currently has two senses:
- Used other than as an idiom: see agree, with. I agree with Arthur: ...
- (of a food) To not make one sick; to not cause nausea, vomiting or diarrhea when eaten.
- "Onions do not agree with me" found in http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com is an idiom, but why is "agree with" the lemma for it rather than "agree"? The form of this phrase is <verb> <preposition>, and "look at" is of the same form, and it is in multiple dicts per “look at”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.. I don't know. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:18, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
No consensus to delete after extended time for consideration. bd2412 T 02:20, 20 March 2016 (UTC)