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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.
Can anyone help me, just a little something that is getting to me, a Proverb with the initial letters A I S For examlpe B D S B Barking Dogs Seldom Bite. Many Thanks if you can help....
what is your favourite quote of all time?
Hi I am reading an excellent novel about life on board destroyers protecting merchant convoys to Russia during the second world war.One paragraph remarks about conditions in the wardroom in bad...
transaction to go a bundle (7,4)
Not a fair cop,uv-nil for us all to drink after meal (6,3) last letter is P
I select clear variety of dyed rabbit skin (8,4) --e-----s--...
Not sure if that is spelt right, but my dad always used to call porridge " bonny bouncing burgu" In my mind it is possibly something that his dad called it, in the navy. Dad is now in his...
Has anybody else noticed and been irritated by the way that TV presenters introduce the weather forecast as "the all-important weather"? I think that the weather is quite important, perhaps...
This is another one I hear from presenters and broadcasters where fewer should be used rather than less. Aaaaah.
If the bed collapses i'll see you in the spring........no question here ..just a vision.
Why do so many people say "she turned around and said so I turned around and said" Surely they would wear two holes in the carpet ;) a phrase frequently heard on The Geremy Kyle show. Does...
'He and I went ' is correct . 'I and he went' is not, in the sense that it's not what native speakers say. Is there some 'rule' of grammar which dictates this? And what dictates the order in 'The...
Lines from great (or not so great) speeches : "Not in the theatre it wasn't" (3,6,2,8,4,3,6)
Isn't it fascinating how poorly people know their language ? When decimalisation was being introduced there were lots of examples of prices, payment and change put up in the media (TV and radio in...
How long have rats been running up drainpipes,so to speak ? 'He was off like a rat up a drainpipe' (he got away very fast ). I only noticed the expression when a Welsh friend used it, but it sounds...
Does anyone know the origin of this quotation?
please can someone help me . there all sayings
M as S.
N a S.
A the B of a H.
G as a L.
A L W C its S.
R A L a H C...
Does anyone have a suggestion for the following ditloids, please?
T D B O M
5 C I A A C...
Enter the ???? My Clue: Issue/accept a challenge
Any help gratefully received
1. t good m a t
2. a s i t closet
3. t a t giddy g
4. t play d a d
5. p c absolute p c a
6. c i n t g
Thanks in advance.....