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Phrases & Sayings
Welcome To Phrases & Sayings where it is what you say and how you say it that is important.Please feel free to share what makes you chuckle in the Jokes section.
what does it mean to 'mash' the tea? My mother has started saying this, 'did you mash the tea', which I find really weird especially when she has never said it before.
I have seen several houses with the name Nia Roo and am curious about its meaning. On putting Nia Roo into Google, I seem to get listings of hotels, guest houses and pubs, all with this name, but no...
Why do we travel: ON a bus ON a plane ON a train ON a horse ON a ????? but IN a car I wonder lol
If I see a single magpie and then a few minutes later, separately another single magpie ... does this add up to joy, or is it a double dose of sorrow? If joy, how long between sightings would be...
We say 'Sitting on the fence'. Russians say 'Sitting under the table'. We say 'Big as a barn door'. Poles say "Big as a 3 door wardrobe'. Grateful to know if anyone has other examples. Thanks.
When my daughter was born in the 70's one of the cards we were given had a lovely poem in called "What is a girl", which I cut out and framed and subsequently lost in a house move. I'd love to get the...
only clue Quotations 4 words 4 1 5 4 take a C???? ???? can you help please
Why are soap operas so called? John
what is a sawdust caesar?
Hope you can help ! What do these initials stand for as a common saying or proverb ? Thanks
My partner is going for a job interview and the job description mentions SSMART. What does it mean?
Can someone please give me the closest translation in latin for the phrase: "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." Thanks
stuck on the last 2, 1a - Title of a prince of the Austrian imperial dynasty (8) ?R?H?U?E and 8d - Latin phrase meaning diametrically opposed, literally by the whole heavens (4,5) ?O?O ?A?L?
elephants with white hats............-can any one finish this saying? please.....
Where does the phrase "and all that mallarky" come from, and what is its exact meaning?
Why 'clever clogs' as a humorous description of someone who gives a bright answer? Is it just that the repeated 'cl' suits the phrase or is there some significance in the choice of 'clogs' ?
Anyone know this saying. Where did it come from? What was its original meaning.
OK lighten up you lot about Irish jokes. Paddy goes for a job on a building site. The foreman asks "Whats the difference between a girder and a joist?" Paddy replies " Well, Joyce wrote Ullysses, and...
17latdacigb. 26a=dotlm. 11ds=hotcote. 13lmiay. hope that some clever person can help here as I dont have a clue, the numbers are part of the ditloids.
Hi, Can anybody help me with the following phrase or saying? Y C G A Q I A P P Many thanks.
