Reader Opinions
Oum Younes – (a blessing in disguise) April 14, 2020
The COVID19 pandemic effects was a blessing in disguise as it helped some people stay home and refocus on some significant things of interests in their lives.
Anonymous – (catch-22) April 11, 2020
You lost your eyeglasses, so you have to find them. To look for them, you need your eyeglasses.
Krishika Agarwal – (birds of a feather flock together) April 1, 2020
Birds of feather flock together :- those men are always hanging around together in the street.
I write with a calligraphy pen – (dot the i’s and cross the t’s) March 31, 2020
I think it might be to do with that when people were writing they left the dots on the i’s & the crosses on the t’s until end.
I think this not just because of the idiom but also because if u have a look at how the writing evolves the f turns into a over large S – much to the confusion of anyone reading a document from back then. I think this is another example of people deciding not to cross a letter (like a t) that then became a style.
As a writer myself dotting i & crossing t is an irregular movement that stops my flow. Doing it at the end the strokes are easy & means u check your work as well. Occasionally u miss a letter, though I’m sure this gets better with practice!
Anonymous – (catch-22) March 30, 2020
I have desire to married but I don’t have any job. For finding job I have needed to married, so I believe it is catch-22 situation.
Old school – (chew the fat) March 30, 2020
After a big meal with family (usually Sunday dinner), we would chew on the fat left over on our plates while gossiping over the latest news about relatives or friends. Those pieces of fat (such as from pork chops) were always browned and juicy, with the best flavor.
Native American speaker (Late Boomer) – (a piece of cake) March 27, 2020
Your definition about anything invented in the 1870s during slavery in the southern states of America loses a bit of credibility when one considers that the Civil war ended in 1865 and slavery had been pretty much abolished by the Emancipation proclamation in 1863.
As to the cakewalk part of your definition, that is somewhat more credible as a cakewalk as originally established was a contest in which pretty much anyone who wanted to keep playing won something eventually.
Anonymous – (turn a deaf ear) March 22, 2020
Dan O. here
i thot ‘turn a deaf ear’ could also apply to a person avoiding unwanted opinion, when that avoider happened to be deaf in only one ear, thus, turning deaf side toward speaker sends a message:
‘I won’t/can’t hear you!’
Anonymous – (hang in there) March 20, 2020
I may be wrong, but I believe it was a line used on the tv show “Then Came Bronson”. Not sure if it predates the poster.
Raptor420 – (on edge) March 13, 2020
I always feel on edge before tests and exams lol.
