Reader Opinions
A reader – (hold your horses) September 14, 2019
My reading it is comes from when people used horses like we now use cars; so it meant please put on the brakes and hold your horses!
Anonymous – (in a pickle) September 13, 2019
Actually it is said that the Dutch used this phrase, even before the publication of William Shakespeare’s “the Tempest” in 1611.
Anonymous – (crack of dawn) September 13, 2019
I agree with some of the statements made… technically though, Dawn is the morning twilight which starts when the sun is 6° BELOW the horizon and ENDS when the sun first goes above the horizon. People make words mean whatever they want them to mean and meanings many times will change over time due to the incorrect usage that is somehow accepted (this aspect obviously bothers me!! Lol).
Chanel (model at vogue, college student) – (castles in the air) September 7, 2019
This was good. I am dumb that i am in college and forgot about this idiom. This was all good
but you should add some more examples.
Anonymous – (the best of both worlds) September 4, 2019
Best of both the world’s really means….. To get best in This present life and the life after our death…. NEW LIFE during the LAST DAY day of judgement
Anonymous – (charity begins at home) September 4, 2019
There is a some stories related to this proverb like the helpful. Reema,. Kind Raju, swara friend, our neighbors
Horse Owner – (eat like a horse) August 29, 2019
Horses do, in fact, eat voraciously and greedily – the person who wrote this doesn’t know horses. A thousand pound horse eats about 20 pounds of food per day – some of it in the form of hay or grass, and some in the form of grain. If the person who wrote this had ever seen a horse eat grain, he would eat his words.
Anonymous – (the early bird catches the worm) August 29, 2019
It doesn’t tell us where it got started or the possible place of origin….things that are more serious historically. The site just seems to reiterate the definition over and over in different ways.
Anonymous – (on the other hand) August 25, 2019
So could I say, “the two characters are foils. Bob was shy and timid on the other hand, Sam was outgoing” ?
Christian, nurse, widow, sheep dog trainer etc – (a bird in the hand) August 24, 2019
The expression is in Pilgrim’s Progress written in 1678
