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It ill behooves us to criticize its emptiness, for we all utter Good morning, Good afternoon, Goodby, How are you?, Hello , and numerous other salutational and valedictory remarks in the course of the day.
But it behooves both Schoenfeld and Culturebox, with the prestige and reach of magazines such as
The most common American sense of in the bag is `completed, done, consummated,' and, while it ill behooves one to state categorically that `ruined, botched' is not a viable definition, I have never encountered the expression used in that sense on either side of the Atlantic.
Some of the smaller dictionaries, from the MW-III and the Random House Unabridged on down through the college and desk sizes, contain etymologies reflecting up-to-date scholarship but these works may not be particularly user-friendly: after all, surveys have shown that etymological information is that least frequently sought by dictionary users, so it ill behooves publishers to devote a great deal of expensive space to it.
This behooves us to ask: If the United States treats her most trusted ally, Britain, in such an ungrateful manner, is she going to treat those Arabs who think they can befriend her any better?"