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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.
Not really sure where to put this...
Why do we abbreviate the name William to Wm, and why don't we do it with any other name?
(Although, I have seen Margaret written as Mgt.)...
One sandwich short of a picnic
A spanner short of a tool kit.
I'd have said it started to be uses about 20 years ago....
When I was a lad (many years ago) living in Sheffield, when I said I was going out with a lass, my Dad used to say " No manking "
I know what he meant, but where does the saying come from ?...
On BBC Breakfast this morning, they showed a story on the right edge of the page of some broadsheet, with the headline (paraphrasing) "We should Soak the Rich to solve the deficit." It's something...
..............."for a bigger set of balls": this quote from "Die Hard 4" I found in a serious German book on politics. A Canadian friend then taught me the U.S. expression "Get a pair". Can anyone...
1 mimrtd
2 Tsiitt...
Why are you ON the bus, but IN the car, and never IN the bus or ON the car
I've no idea why but the word suddenly came to me as I was describing how a shop assistant rolled up a jersey I had bought and stuffed it into a too small bag! I realise I am a Brummie but can find no...
A rose by any other name.... If anyone is familiar with that quote, without further ado, please explain. Also, since someone asked me to post another pic of me here ya go:...
Hi everyone! I need your help with some kind of translation. Let me explain.. In the animated Frozen movie (2013) there is a scene where a snowman Olaf goes through an icy cave and gets impaled on an...
Why is black and white referred to as monochrome, and not duochrome?
Don't know if this is the right section but.....Son's homework last night was defining 'pathetic fallacy' as a grammatical term, giving examples, and then explaining the difference between pathetic...
0 = S in a B - help please
does anyone know the answer to this puzzle please -
0 = S in a B...
I've noticed that the words 'Railway Station' seem to have become defunct and the (to my mind uglier) 'Train Station' is ubiquitous on the radio. When and why did this start to happen?
Lessons will be learned Missold Serious Failings Hearing these phrases or words on a daily basis - getting sick to the teeth of it.. what about replacing these with. Accountability Responsibility and...
Looking for a few interesting motivational and inspirational sayings so i can print them off and put them on my office wall. EG....A wise man will learn more from his ememies then his friends. I was...
Think it may have been Rabelais.
It was what a man should do before he dies.
I've only done two of them ......
these initials are off famous phrases andsayings
1- T m a t w s I t
2- l t c e g I p
3- s n a d
4- e t h w e t
5- f l w l
6- w t h a s
any ideas please...
2, GRIP DOOR SEAT (8,4)
20, CHOP VINES (4,5)
28, CAKE OF SUGAR TABLET(5,6,6)...
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