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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 the slang john thomas come from?
Meaning your trousers are too short.... Where does this saying come from? :)
what did your mum answer when you asked her? My mum and nan used to have some good 'uns: 'Two jumps each at' pantry door - see if you can reach the lock!' and 'Air pie, wi' no crust - and two slides...
Does the misuse/omission of apostrophes irritate you? What about any other punctuation errors or turns-of-phrase? eg 'basically....' or 'so I turned round and said...' One of the ones that does my...
The best palindromic sentence I've ever seen (they are notoriously hard to compose) was about John Findlay Wallace, one of the principal engineers of the Panama Canal. It was 'A man, a plan, a canal....
subset of the lesser antilles (8,7)
please can anyone help with this knot- no number of letters-thank you:
To have a better embrace of this...
1. One gets by though confused. 2. A lot go round an animal. 3. Drink for 1000. 4. A point for the writer. 5. Month changes a letter. 6. Point to the sick headless animal. 7. Volcano fallout. Any help...
I'm trying and failing to remember the technical term for the debating tactic of arguing from the particular to the general. Can anyone help, please?
just looking at this actor's agency website and many of them list an accent as RP. What is it?
I was just wondering is there a name for changing an optimistic statement into a pessimistic statement by changing one word?? For example "It could be worse"?
I put something up for auction on Ebay yesterday and couldn't figure out which is the correct spelling for despatch/dispatch. I'm probably being thick here but which one is it please.
not sure if this is right place for this question sorry but couldnt find where else to put it.
It came up in a word search but I cannot find it in the dictionary
Should have posted this here - not down there, sorry. Found out today that we don't actually own one of our cars thanks to some thieving garage selling us a car that they claimed was HP checked. Been...
Found out today that we don't actually own one of our cars thanks to some thieving garage selling us a car that they claimed was HP checked. Been to trading standards and the garage has done this to...
Again the last one has me baffled
5d it was enough for our ancestors (4) E?O?...
OH plays poker on a certain site with a lot of lovely French people joining in. We can understand bjr and bj and mci and ci but cannot fathom out the 're' (amongst a whole load of other words, it's a...
How do I find out who composed the following piece of poetry (queries Jan/Feb 2007). I hope you are able to help. Mother dear, the years are fleeting with their sorrow and their song; but we know the...
Two balls in a vertical line mean different things when used as a buoy topmark or on board a ship Which two meanings are correct A Preferred Channel B Fairway C Isolated danger D Pilot Vessel E Not...
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