Phrases & Sayings

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WTW

"I'll give you a fourpenny one!"

Does anybody know the origin of this phrase, which usually resulted in a clip around the ear?

bodybeatrock

conversation analysis

Im looking for a helpful crticism of conversation analysis, limitations or disadvantages would be helpfull. thanks

David H

Various Americanisms

What is the collective origin of the similar terms 'sucks' 'blows' and 'bites' (I think I know sucks but not certain) and the related 'bite me'?

blink_babe13

Witty few words for 40th birthday

Female friend's 40th birthday coming up soon and want to get her something like a bumper sticker made with a quip about her age....any ideas? Just a few words since you can't fit much on a bumper...

kopo

help

could someone translate this from french into english pleasssssseeeee. beacoup --- je te manque beacoup----je pense a toi toujours-----dormez bien----------------------------------- thanks

evsajo

I don't know where this verse is from or who it's by, can anyone help? If i should leave you now don't talk of me with sadness in your voice. Sorry about spacing, am just a learner and don't know how...

burgess3334

proverbs

can anyone help with a proverb that fits the following letters, T T T H L O A D

smurfchops

The thing is, is

Why do people say, 'the thing is, is that .. ' instead of 'the thing is, that ... ' It really annoys me ...

ali_alic

You and I or You and me??

Which one is it. I have just answered someone with "Lucy and me", then apologised and said "ooops I should say Lucy and I" and my boss is insisting that it should be Lucy and me. He says if you take...

louisem06

queen?

if you could ask the queen one question what would it be?

genius101

Someone's talking about you?!?!

When your ears get hot and go red why do people say "someone is talking about you"? Where did that saying come from? Also the next bit - Right your mother, left your lover???

Wasyl

highland dancer'sshout

kern-soldier

cornish sayings

i am a soldier on ops and would love to have a cornish saying to make each day feal better

mecole

you betcha bottom dollar

what does this saying mean?

Big I

poem i think

it goes something like If you use it put it back if you turn it on turn it off if you open it close it I want to put a poster up for my kids

bishs

Saying

What was the best thing before sliced bread??

metalox

Second star on the right

Anyone know where this phrase: "second star on the right and straight on till morning," is from? I know it was used at the end of Star Trek: The Search For Spock., but I was looking for the original...

bobbob2

where is this quote from?

piece of cake...piece of kwambo cake

shazzabell

Of a morning

What does 'of a morning' mean?

Rod Serling

Demonic ritual?

Somebody said (in jest/in context, not literally) "be alone in a dark roon, with only a candle and your hands grasped, with only one finger, slightly bent, pointing upwards", what does this signify?...