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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.
Has anyone else heard of this saying ? My sister thinks I've made it up. It reminds me of Nellie Pledge for some reason :o)
What does "Quintus per multitudinem servorum contendit" mean?
Quiz question - place name
"he scored the least many times"...
...saw a good one on a sign outside a shop in town today:
Furniture
Antiques
Sofa's
The sofa's what?
Have you seen any good ones recently?...
Has anyone noticed that kids today are raising the picth of their voice at the end of sentences, and worse, no and go are sounding like noy and goy.- don't know to spell them!
I know that the MI stands for Ministery for the Interior. and I know that 5 deals with home issues/activity and 6 deals with foreign issues/activity. But what, in these cases, does the 'interior'...
who first sang "theres a hole in my bucket" thanks.
How would you write the phrase
below is an article on the puppy's development' or is it puppies development, or puppies' development? There is more than one puppy!...
Where you left it.
This might be a stupid question, but is it true that the phrase 'Dead ringer' comes from some time back when a bell would be burried with a person in case they were burried alive and could ring the...
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Have looked up all the usual lists of proverbs but no luck.
Would appreciate some help!!...
"A good deal of brandy was consumed" When and how did 'a good deal' come to mean 'a substantial quantity' and 'deal' by itself to mean 'a lot' or 'quite a lot', as in 'He is a deal of...
I meant pitch.
Hi
Does anyone know where the phrase 'being sold a pup' comes from?
Thanks...
"put your mind at rest " can anyone explain this saying ? TIA
I've heard this phrase crop up just over the last year or so and was perplexed to where it's origins come from. Any ideas?
Why is a slice of bread called a round when it is not nessecarily round.
What are the Chilean miners chanting on being brought out and what does it mean please? thank you.
Oh dear, I hope I'm not asking a question with too obvious an answer. I've noticed that many ABers replying to posts sometimes end their reply with the letters 'lol', or they simply type that as a...
Who wrote the Sash? with grateful thanks