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Phrases & Sayings
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What does it mean when your nose itches and your left or right ear itch or burn?
What is ' the fig of Spain'? and its origin. Tks
I've always heard the phrase---Out like Lottie's Eye......What is the meaning of this? And who is Lottie?
What is a Christmas tiger? Where did the saying originate?
What is the meaning of "taking on" in the following sentences? The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 had excluded agricultural workers from its guarantee of the right of labor to organize and...
When I was in school I remember being taught that the Ancient Greek (maybe modern Greeks too) had three words for 'love'. Erose, Philos and something else. They meant love as in "I love...
Anybody know the words to the rhyme And his name was aching drum
In chivalry, 'bowling a maiden over' is a reference to cricket or to the knights ability to enrapture and captivate a damsel? I find the overlap between cricketing terminology and chivalry to be...
What is the latin for
"The Student is Always Wrong"?
Thanks
Is it Faint/feint and maiden/lady and where is it from?
How come the word "sweat" is pronounced 'swett' whereas meat, treat, eat, feature all have the 'eet' sound?
What is ' the fig of Spain'? and its origin. Tks
Where does the word 'barney' meaning to have an argument come from?
What is the origin of this word? Is it some sort of old high germanic thing? just want to know it's deriviation. I mean of course the word for masturbation,not "wink" !!
Whay do some sayings end with "To A T". What is so special about T??
What is the meaning of 'getting on the map" in the following sentence? When it comes to getting on the map, the people of Afton, Wyoming know exactly who put them there. Rulon Gardner, the small-town...
Why is it bad manners to 'tear up the picture book'? It seems a pointless saying yet I see it regularly in print, particularly in the tabloid press.
What the hell does this mean? I'm seeing it all over this site.
What does 'she's reet good chunty' mean? It's in Gazza's autobiography I think.
does anyone know who said "I'm sure I was wrong on a number of occasions, but I can't think of anything immediately"
