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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.
"Look after the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves". Does anybody know the origin of this silly saying? I traced it back to the mother of Andrew Carnegie (of Carnegie .Hall fame in...
There's a line in the poem that says - "And if it's alright with you, I' like to stay til I'm 82" - can anyone help with this one, please? Thank in advance - I'm sure someone will know it! Puffin62
IBM corporate headquaters
my youngest daughter has asked me why people say white rabbits on the first day of a new month? i know that is for good luck... but why? and why rabbits? why not buffalo or frogs? please let me know...
does any one know who jimmy boyle is. as in the rhyming slang jimmy boyle - foil.
T O M G I A G T I N S T A A F L would be grateful of any help
Used as a generic term for "An old lady down the road" in Blackadder, does the name Mrs Miggins have any historical significance?
What is the origin of "Six feet under" and why 6 feet? Thanks
In the sentence , "The in-love experience does not focus on our own growth nor on the growth and development of the other person. Rather, it gives us the sense that we have arrived."...
Here's a good one - for QM, maybe: We all know that Karsie is abbreviated Cockney rhyming slang for the toilet - ie: Karsie Moilet, but who or what was Karsie Moilet? Have a nice weekend ABuddies....
I hadn't heard this said in years 'til I saw it on a comedy programme being used by one of the characters in the Carherine Tate show.I had a pompous fat great aunt when I was a child who used to say...
What is that all about. Neither of my grannys sucked eggs as far as i know and my mum don't either now she is a granny..x
using the word apple,what is the derogatory term for farmer or farmland?
Does anyone know who will be 67 on 17.04.07 please? 4/9 and the letters I've got are H, I, C, C, R, K, I, C and 5 blanks. Thanks in anticipation!
born in 1981 in chelmsford essex ?
Is there a popular folk name for frog? Such as 'marsh offspring' or 'pond chicken' or 'swamp baby' or something like that?...
what is a derogatory term for farmer or farmland
use the word apple in a phrase for the word nonsense
T O M G I A G or T I N S T A A F L Does anyone have any ideas!
I can't figure out what these puzzels mean and I can't find the answers on the internet....6 C O N I, 60 N S L,
9 O M T E. Can anyone help?