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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 does this phrase come from?
What does it mean if someone tells you that "you are one in a million"?
eat it to appease the cook
what is the origin of "suite yourself"?
Can anyone think of a word that rhymes with purple? Other than burble.
We called 1904, nineteen 'o' four, not one thousend nine hundred and four so shouldnt we call 2004 twenty 'o' four and not two thousand and four?
This is only a trivial question but may help settle a debate betwen me and my boyfriend. I was talking about having sent a text to someone and said "I'd texted them", he insists theres no such...
What is the meaning of "large business aggregations" in the following sentences? Congress had created a new Department of Commerce and Labor, with membership in the president's Cabinet. One bureau of...
What's the difference between these two?
What is the difference between 'by' and 'as early as'? 1. By 1910 Taft's party was divided, and an overwhelming vote swept the Democrats back into control of Congress. 2. The president...
The term "under par" is, as I understand, what you aim for in a game of golf, why then is it unacceptable in any other situation to be "under par"?
As a primary school boy I remember learning Hickory Dickory Dock. The teacher also taught us a second verse : "Hickory Dickory Dare, the pig flew into the air. Farmer Brown brought him down,...
What is the meaning of "bare political corruption" in the following sentences? In his sensational novel, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed unsanitary conditions in the great Chicago meat packing...
what is the latin translation for ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE MY SOUL
What is the meaning of 'address a note" in the following sentence(in relation to each literal meaning of "address" and "note')? In its own earlier diplomatic relations with Asia, the American...
Let a thousand flowers bloom.
What is the difference in meaning between 'lay claim to' and 'stake a claim to' in the following sentences and What is the reason that after 'lay' there is no "a" but after stake...
Who first used the expression, "Let a thousand flowers bloom."
were does the saying cowerdy cowerdy custerd come from
I've seen cannon (plural) with an s and without an s. Which is right?