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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 phrase "a shed load" come from is it when a lorry sheds it load or something to do with garden storage? I really am stumped.
Where has this come from!
"...nature itself means nothing, says nothing except to the perceiving mind.... Beauty is where it is perceived...you surely will see...if you are prepared to see it -- if you look for it..."
what does that word mean to you to me it means Frank Lampard The Beatles The Artic Monkeys
'To --- is human ,to forgive,divine' .What is the missing word?.
But does anybody know the word for when somebody is always on time? I know which word i'm thinking of it's just not coming into my head!
as (4) as mutton as (4) as a snail as (5) as mud
wilber wilberforce grace darling elizabeth fry
What is a colloquialism?
Where the heck does the word JEB come from?
Steelie
Is there a word or phrase that sums up, when your looking for something that isnt there.
What does piping mean in this fragment from Treasure Island by Stevenson? ...And I was going to sea myself, to sea in a schooner, with a piping boatswain and pig-tailed singing seamen, to sea, bound...
This isn't a direct quote but as near as I can remember. 'I may not agree with what he is saying but I will defend his right to say it' Its doing my head in! Thanks warpig
We are having a bit of a discussion here as to whether or not "Tortoi" is the right word for more than one tortoise or if it is "Tortoises" ??
Can anyone give me the origin of GOLLY as used in Good golly. I don't think it is anything to do with golliwog.
what does this mean?
Why do people say "I wish I were..." when surely it should be "I wish I was...." and which is correct.
what is a stotter? I could not find it in any dictionary. the context is: ...she asked us to write something. the last poem we did was to be on out philosophy on life. I did a ******* stotter on...
"...nature itself means nothing, says nothing except to the perceiving mind.... Beauty is where it is perceived...you surely will see...if you are prepared to see it -- if you look for it..."
which football club was rodney marsh talking about when he said "if they stay up, i will have my head shaved on the pitch"?