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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.
Where did the phrase 'lie like a hairy egg' come from?
Enquiring minds want to know
"In the next programme we'll be looking at Blind Dogs for the Guide"
"Silly rabbit, tricks are for kids" - I have been on the internet, and all I get are the quote from Kill Bill - but I am sure I have heard the phrase in other films, tv shows, and I would like to know...
For example I hate hard bristles on a broom, make my teeth go on edge and I get goosebumps. My eldest son gets the same with cotton wool? Some people I know don't like chip forks in this way. What is...
Please please please can someone tell me what a Nomark Porkie is?? I've been called it, and have a suspicious feeling it is NOT a good thing.... hahaha... any help will be greatly appreciated!!!
Where does the phrase "To stand on the shoulders of giants..." come from? It's been bugging me for yonks!
Please please please can someone please tell me what a Nomark Porkie means? I was called this.. and have a feeling it aint none too good, hahahaha.... Thanks in advance!!!
"What's the plural of ignites"
What is the origin of the word - Kerfuffle (not sure if that is the correct spelling
OK, this has been asked a lot on Sport and/or Football over the last few days. Does anyone know what this means? Aparrently it's Cantonese, and apparently it's a Premiership football team (although...
what highway is overrun by dinosaurs
why is the bathroom called the head?
a man's dissatisfaction with his lot
Indicating the route by which it was transported to europe, the name 'Turquoise' is French for what?
Hi all. Does anyone know the origins of the word Bugbear? Thank you in anticipation!
Did Bigot in the 17th cent. mean what is does today? I see that there was a Lord Bigot in Shakespeare's King John.
ok, so i know most phrases such as lmao, lmfao, lol, w/e, nm, wubu2, or wuu2, wltm, gsoh but what does pmsl and rofl mean? i hadn't heard of these till i came on here! xx
does anyone know - does the term 'may day' - the call for help/distress - come from the French - "m'aider"?????
Can anyone tell me the origin and the meaning of the saying "you are a better man than i am Gungidin" I Know he was an Indian hero at the time of the Raj but has it anything to do with him. ps i might...
If you are computer literate, do you have the skill of computer literacy? It would make sense but i'm sure it's wrong! Please answer! Thanks in advance. :Ace:
