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Beru33

There is, I believe, a French terminology that describes the missed opportunity to give or make an appropriate comment. I found it once by accident but cannot recall it for the life of me!!!!! Please...

mariner2

Brass monkeys?

I just got an email saying this was something to do with cannon balls and the thing holding them in place on a ship's deck . . . . is this true?

madmaggot

Annoying phrases:

Am I the only one who gets annoyed when people say things like: 'at this moment in time' instead of 'at the moment' 'I, myself, personally' instead of 'personally' 'hence the reason' instead of...

David H

Does the word 'gilby' for snot exist?

If anyone else heard LBC last night a taxi driver called in about sneezing in the taxi and called the resulting effluence 'gilby' landing all over his steering wheel. I know taxi drivers use their own...

matron5

saying

please can anyone give me the phrase or saying represented by :- 1 sticks olast 2 a e's h is hc 3 s w t i i hot 4 omutbd 5 daywbdb Thank you

gillie05

word puzzle

does anybody know these ive managed half of them e g. Q? 21 cita = 21 consonants in the alphabeta.. 7 gmfmsam = 19coatpb= 5 vojtr=

echokilo

a a i k m m v v v r s k b s

I need to remember a set of words beginning with the above letters ... can anyone out there help by creating a word, phrase or mnemonic from this to make life easier?

chapsco

sayings

a modest person hides their light where ?

fred1

abbreviated sayings

can anyone help with these abbreviated sayings 1 o i a m o s 2 i a g p s 3 n t l t p 4 b a l 5 h a n d 6 w t e d s, t h d g o 7 e l h 8 a h b m i w t a 9 t o m g i a g 10 o i a b m many thanks for any...

Aquagility

Mr or Esq ?

One for Quizmaster? While I have never doubted that Jack was as good as his master, there was a less PC time when Mr was reserved for the Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker. Those not engaged in...

mgwebley3650

What's the phrase?

There is, I believe, a French terminology that describes a missed opportunity to make a verbal response, & if the very moment is missed, the comment would be futile. Please help..........

chrisrob

Up the creek

An elderly passenger when I was driving taxis near Portsmouth 10 years ago, told me a possible origin of this saying which seems reasonable to me but I haven't found it in any books or on-line...

Boadicea1413

penny to a pound

what does this mean when someoe says Ill bet you a penny to a pound

jojokins

another one driving me up the wall

0 T on a M C?

jojokins

last one

8P is the CC in L?? any ideas?

joko

way to describe when some1 automatically snipes or says opposite at everything you say, just 4 the sake of it?

some example of what i mean are, such as a friend said he was growing his hair long, an i said oh good, i like that, and he said, don't really care if you like it or not. for no reason at all. almost...