Reader Opinions
HHH – (Verbs) January 16, 2019
Is there a present past and future verb?
Tammy R – (bury the hatchet) January 11, 2019
From the founding of the Iroquois Confederacy and burying weapons beneath the tree of peace.
Swami Mounananda – (cut the mustard) January 8, 2019
The idiom ‘cut the mustard’ gets my goat !
I like it better than ‘pass muster’.
I wanna publish but cannot quite cut the mustard.
Blue eyed girl? – (blue eyed boy) January 8, 2019
“blue eyed girl” should be considered as well.
Solomon – (brain drain) January 7, 2019
I’m really enjoying this site. It has become my everyday “bus stop”.
Kenneth – (a bed of roses) January 6, 2019
Marriage is a bed of roses. Mainly thorns with beautiful, fragrant flowers on top. Endure the thorns, enjoy the flowers.
Fatima Tumba Yusuf – (good Samaritan) January 5, 2019
I am a promoter, and in love with good Samaritan, I love your ideas, I love touching and helping the less privilege in my little corner’s. How do I become a partner?
Moskova420 – (black hole) December 31, 2018
Supermassive nucleus of density
Richard West – (use your loaf) December 31, 2018
As a Londoner, I’d always assumed it was Cockney-rhyming slang: loaf of bread = head. Eric Partridge supports this origin. Do you have actual citations for your alternative theory?
Nelwyn Talley – (everything but the kitchen sink) December 25, 2018
I believe the saying came from the 50’s because my mom told me that the houses did not have kitchen sinks & they would bring their own kitchen sink each time they moved to a new house,
