“To Get Up On the Wrong Side of the Bed”
So which side is the wrong side of the bed??
According to the Henry Holt Encyclopedia, the wrong side of the bed is the left side. It's a superstition that goes back to the Romans. People have been saying other people got up on the wrong side of the bed, "awoke gro...
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“It Rains on the Just and the Unjust Alike”
"It rains on the just and the unjust alike". This phrase can be traced to the biblical Matthew 5:45, "He... sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.." A scholium on the verse by Charles, Baron Bowen (1835-94) ....
The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust...
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“Gone To Pot”
Are we discussing marijuana....how about cremation, as in the placing of human ashes in an urn or pot..gone to pot?
Once again we look into the origins of a phrase..."gone to pot". This phrase dates back before Elizabethan times and was inspired by pieces of meat being ...
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“Knuckle Down!”
Marbles used to be as familiar as jacks and Pic-up-Stix. The games were named after the items it required to compete. What else can be said about marbles but it was a 'pure' sport. It took no electricity, no computer and it involved getting together with friend and f...
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To Get One’s Goat
You like to write, after all, you write a blog
or you're an author and you just love words.
Did you ever wonder how people come up with the phrases they do?
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He's getting their goat!
How about this one: How did t...
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