Reader Opinions
Dr, Jean OOSTENS – (good grief) May 30, 2019
Grief can be good it is grief offered as a share in what Jesus suffered on the Cross, or sharing with the grief of our brothers and sisters in Christ.
Anonymous – (whole nine yards) May 28, 2019
I read somewhere that the phrase has military origins. In WW2 fighter pilots in combat used magazines containing bullets. These magazines were 9 yards long. After destroying enemy aircraft, pilots often would comment, “I gave him the whole nine yards.”
Reece – (kill two birds with one stone) May 27, 2019
How about killing one bird with two stones?
Anonymous – (rain check) May 19, 2019
If someone takes a rain check on a visit, is it up to me to invite them again or do they just pop over whenever they feel like it?
Virendra – (the ball is in your court) May 19, 2019
Saudi Arabia has said they want to avoid the war but the ball is in the court of Iran, it is upto them to initiate the action to start the war after USA oil embargo on Iran.
Lara – (dark horse) May 18, 2019
The term did originate from horse racing and referred to lighter horses that were dyed a darker colour in order to mask their identity and therefore leverage the betting odds.
Oh My – (show true colors) May 17, 2019
‘Advanced English‘ student is ‘pot calling the kettle black‘. No punctuation, and horribly run-on sentences.
Derek Smith, Scotland – (do or die) May 12, 2019
Dave Johnson thinks that Robert Burns may have “got the phrase” from Tennyson’s poem of 1854, but I don’t think so because Robert Burns died in 1796.
Horse Caretaker – (eat like a horse) May 9, 2019
Whoever wrote the “Origin” above knows nothing about horses, let alone their eating habits. Do not be misled. Horses eat like crazy. That’s where this phrase comes from, idiom, no idiom, or idiot. Not sure which.
Lola Ice – (ring a bell) May 8, 2019
Pavlov NEVER used a bell in his experiments.
He used a metronome among other stimuli.
