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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.
Why when someone is, for example, pouring milk into tea for someone else, do they often say "Say when" ? Where does it come from?
Thank you :)...
What is your explanation of what this phrase means and is there a hidden meaning here?
A phrase that has found its way into common usage, but what does a rat smell like? Has it an unique pong?
Beginning with the letter 'I' the question is 'He designed a place to eat in Whitehall'
When I was younger me and my brother used to say this with no meaning really just when something funny happens in our youth but now I am wondering where this expression could have originated from....
Why is a cash register called a till?
Some of you know I give private English lessons here in France. One of my pupils was corrected on writing 'On my arrival' rather than 'at my arrival' which I know is wrong but I can't find where I can...
Unfortunately, my mother is no longer alive so I cannot ask her the origin of a little phrase she used when I was younger. I'm hoping someone here may be able to help... The phrase was "nim shy room...
I'm trying to recall a term used in poker when betting. This happened in a Blackpool casino a while ago. My friend had just lost quite a few hands, due to a combination of bad luck and poor betting....
When a building collapses, we say it was ' raised to the ground' but that doesn't really make sense, so why do we say it?
After reading Coccinelle's question about "on or at" I want to ask if anyone here is as annoyed by the "new" way that people describe their boredom of a particular thing.. When I was growing up it was...
Clues are...
1. It makes money to say hello to spain
2. Between - but stop before tea...
as in "I'm chanelling Fred Bloggs". Julian Fellowes used it in one of his recent Country House TV programmes. He said it was an American term but didn't explain it further. It's often used in the...
What do Americans mean by 'honors student'? CBS News just described a girl who performed at the Presidential Inauguration and who was shot dead in south Chicago as one, and I have no idea what they...
iron...........water
Can someone recommend something witty and meaning to write in a 21 St birthday card maybe shakesphere or Oscar Wilde...
When did the previously baby- talk word 'poo' become the accepted word? What did we call before? Granted that it took my mother 5 years to get me to say 'manure', so my version may not be polite, but...
I like his saying "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive"...
Places and countries.
1. A drink or a starter. 7,8.
2. A cowardly pigment from Delhi? 6,6.
3. A type of ornamental light. 4,4....
Does anyone know who said: "A Christian is a person who repents on Sunday, what the did on Saturday, and what they will do on Monday." ? I remember this as being said by Rudyard Kipling, but I went to...