100 off an item for sale?!

[charles]

no, a bolt only has a short thread at one end.

" A Birmingham screwdriver"

[Sam Plusnet]

I have seen people 'start' screws with a hammer, then follow that up with a (powered) screwdriver.

[Commander Kinsey]

Nah, I've never met anyone who wouldn't call this a bolt:

This guy was Scottish.

[Commander Kinsey]

This guy hammered them all the way in. And I don't think he had powered screwdrivers. He was one of those "use your own strength" people, despite being about 90. The only electrical things in his property I ever saw were a telephone, a small television, and a pump to get water from a well (no mains water there).

[Commander Kinsey]

Your link just proved to me there's no "correct" terminology. You need to ask for precisely what you need. Does the thread go all the way up? Is it hex or pozi on the end? Is it self tapping?

"There is no universally accepted distinction between a screw and a bolt."

Depends what reward I get.

That would have caused a WTF!? moment. Although if I was your mate I would have said, "Hang on I think I need a 12mm...."

[Chrysi Cat]

I'm with Kinsey here (though admittedly, I'm a Yank who got this only via a.u.e):

"Off" is entirely misleading. The idea of "a set composed of 100 of" being "off", if it exists, is only BrE, while the sense of "savings" is worldwide in the language.

[RH Draney]

What if it's a carriage bolt?...

And what do you call those bolts that have no threading at all?...r

[Boris Johnson]

Most items usually have a proper name and a name the shoptards use.

For example, most shoptards use the name "allen wrench" when referring to a "hex key".

[FromTheRafters]

Ammunition.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Rivets

[Sam Plusnet]

Captive.

[Commander Kinsey]

It's an allen key.

[Commander Kinsey]

It's not very captive when it flies out of the gun.

[Commander Kinsey]

Neither did I, since it works just fine for me. I guess Mr Lodder has a shitty newsreader. A space and nothing else decrees the end, why would a bracket end it?

[Snidely]

College students. But not from the football team, who'd be ordering the 10-pack.

/dps

[Ken Blake]

Three orders of two tacos each, I assume. That makes six.

It doesn't seem hard to understand to me, especially with the above two lines where x clearly stands for "orders" or "order."

[RH Draney]

Try saying it to the drive-thru speaker: "I need three two tacos"...you'll get three tacos...or six...or two....r

[NY]

Why not say "I want six tacos" rather that "I want three two tacos". Or if they come in pairs, "I want three double tacos".

[Commander Kinsey]

And that explicit way is "of". Why can't you deal with "of" occurring twice in a sentence? Off means less.

[Commander Kinsey]

So 5 less than 5 teaspoons, a very poor offer.

But I agree, "off" means something is reduced or removed. It's an everyday English word, and it doesn't mean anything like "of".

Application. Or do you park your car in the gar?