Reader Opinions
Anonymous – (don’t look a gift horse in the mouth) April 27, 2019
I have requested that the said person join us on Tuesday 30 April rather than Monday. I trust that both Nikhil and Swati should be there to deal with this person? Who is likely to help us a lot! Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
Carbuncle – (well-to-do) April 25, 2019
Well-to-do Synonyms: You have “well-healed.” It’s actually/should be “well-HEELED.” I suggest fixing this.
Pete – (cut corners) April 23, 2019
This is incorrect. The origin is in agriculture. Cutting a corner whilst working a field gives the sense one has completed quicker and more efficiently, then to move on to the next t field quicker. However, there is no advantage in doing this and in fact it is detrimental if part of the crop hasn’t been sown/treated due to the cutting of corners.
Steve Walton – (everything but the kitchen sink) April 21, 2019
Seems like it would be the other way around: the only thing that people did NOT move with them when they shifted houses was the kitchen sink, which was plumbed in. I suggest this because when we bought out house, we learned that when the owners in the 70s moved out, they took everything, including the light fixtures in the front hall. And if you think about it, real estate listings will specify whether or not the sellers are leaving the washer/dryer, fridge, and so on. So, like the Beverley Hillbillies, “they loaded up the truck…”.
Onur – (at arm’s length) April 19, 2019
I always thought the sentence meant keeping someone nearby rather than distant.
Anonymous – (fortune favours the bold) April 18, 2019
This is a idiom which I usually tell myself during hard times. That there will be good times after the hard ones.
Frankistine Enayat – (a bed of roses) April 15, 2019
Getting job in one’s field is not a bed of rose, you will have to work tooth and nail.
DPro – (mumbo jumbo) April 15, 2019
I have always “assumed” Mumbo-jumbo became popular in the United States because of the book Little Black Sambo. Little Black sambo had a mother by the name of mumbo-jumbo and a father by the name of jumbo.
Lazaria Smith – (down to earth) April 9, 2019
Why did ya’ll say i am smarter than you so get on my level who ever said that yall is funny as heck get on my level instead of them ok so who said that try me first before you try them slow they are smarter than you so get on!
HUDSON – (Nouns) April 7, 2019
Congratulations, it is good grammar polisher.
