I would like to know a latin translation of the phrase, "when the going gets tough, the tough get going". I am aware that it will not be possible to directly translate it, but I would be...
Hi Finished I hope- not as enjoyable as usual. Can I check my answers on a few 19d one waterway without vessel causing qualms Uneasiness 24a lass born to be reflective Eileen 20d sporting jack's...
In my youth 40's-50's often I was sent to the grocers or butchers for rhoded bacon. This was not the best (back) or streaky but probably middle cut. This may be regional (Liverpool) and as I cannot...
"There's no country, really, that can afford another fiscal stimulus. They've all run out of money." (David Cameron) Good grief! If Gordon Brown - rather than the casino bankers - was...
when we were kids if we sat on the damp grass our Mum used to say "you will get the pip if you get damp knickers" i never knew what she meant by "the pip" does anyone else remember...
Like a graduate, but not. I don't think you can graduate from a course. Where I work, we have a six month stipend programme for new staff. What noun can be used to describe a person who has finished...
Strueth, Ed, relying on old Labour in PMQ's! Good to see the Beast of Bolsover in action though, always a classic performer, talks total bowlox of course but so expertly!
I've just been watching the BBC's latest propaganda film from last night and it seems that we've been unfairly maligning our itinerant brothers. Jolly bunch honest hard working just handing down their...
"She has passed on a wealth of knowledge to Thomas, who shares her enthusiasm for caring about others and the world around him."
or should the final word be 'her' or 'them'?...
http://www.timesonlin...nk/article2697975.ece I just watched QI and they said that the lowest mortality rates are in those drinking 21-30 units and to have the same mortality as a teetotaller a man...
Who do the BBC think they are standing for the establishment on who will decide whether Scotland should be independent. It is for the Scottish people alone to decide their nation's future. We do not...
Now that the EU accounts have a clean bill of health http://europa.eu/rapi...?reference=IP/10/1480 (can't find the story in the Express for some reason) And the MOD has lost track of a small fortune...
In the past month I've watched many spectator sports and I found many of them just boring. Maybe I'm getting old but something is missing . Motor racing nowadays is hardly worth putting on . just...
235 years ago today: IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve...
I always thought the word was Mathematics, so why do Americans say Math, as in, do the Math, I saw an advertising board in the station with that on it. London underground, not my favourite place,...
1. Which slang expression for the Queen's Christmas speech is derived from the name of a 20th century opera? 2. What was mid to late 19th century slang in Britain for an inn or tavern called the...
