If you know the old nursery rhyme that goes: This old man, he played one, he played knick nack on my drum, with a knick nack, paddywhack, give a dog a bone, this old man came rolling home. Was any...
Can anyone recommend a good web site that would help a foreigner such as myself use the correct and expected phrases when making formal and semi-formal telephone calls to the UK and/or the United...
I asked you a question in a previous post about a phrase you used, you did not answer and I am intrigued about the meaning of it, so I will ask again - what does ''Oh be off on ya toes will you'' mean...
can anyone tell me what 'puddock' means - i have been given 2 very different definitions one is a 'frog' and the other is part of the anatomy - as 'I am fu to the puddock'
can anyone help, being driven crazy by something i think i know! i'm sure that i read somewhere recently (last couple of weeks, but have no idea where) that this alluded to someone, but cannot...
which ten-letter adjective is applied to popular books-'A total sale of 1% of the current population of the continental United States in the decade in which it was published'
why do we phrases in a certain order......i.e back to front and not front to back inside out and not outside in upside down and not downside up. they all mean the same whichever way you say them so...
When referring to harrassing, tormenting etc., why is it known as "badgering" specifically. Obviously it is similar to the actual meaning of "dogging", if slightly more aggressive. I found another...
Does anyone know for real what this line from an advert was advtertising "I've never known a night like it"? I have heard people say soup, scampi fries and beer but what was it from?...