Reader Opinions
Chocolate – (strike while the iron is hot) October 25, 2018
This web page provided me with the stuffs, which I was in search for. 🙂
Lucas Harvey – (devil’s advocate) October 25, 2018
Thank you. Your page helped me learn a bit more about myself, as this term was thrown around once to describe me on a personality test.
Kassra – (fish rots from the head down) October 24, 2018
The Famous Persian (Farsi) beloved poet Rumi originated this. But it is more exciting than the known mere translation.
The word he used for rotting is GNDH in Farsi.
You can pronounce GNDH in 2 ways:
1) GaNDeH (Rots)
2) GoNDeH (Grows / Gets Bigger)
He knew what he was doing as he was a master of literature and intended the double meaning.
So the actual half-verse (part of a major piece) he wrote in Farsi and often used by Iranians for many centuries for bad/good leadership is:
“The Fish Rots/Grows From the head, not from tail”
It is pronounced alternatively to mean bad or good leaders, most often though if not always, it is used to criticise and is pronounced GaNDeH meaning rotting from the head.
Anonymous – (love to death) October 20, 2018
April I always will even though she killed me. I never did her wrong did she really love me I never know.
Akeriba B. Ranteweia – (leave no stone unturned) October 17, 2018
I am profoundly pleased to learn this proverb’s meaning and particularly the meaning and examples with sentences. It is extremely useful and helpful. Many thks for the tremendously good effort in all things.
Dolly – (drop a line) October 11, 2018
It doesn’t make a sense you can say we drop a line to each other every week, month etc.
Paul – (once bitten, twice shy) October 10, 2018
I believe a subtlety in the meaning of this idiom may have been overlooked. If the idiom were “Once bitten, once shy” then it would mean what is described here i.e. that one is cautious after a bad experience. But the implication of the word “twice” is that one tends to be thus cautious for longer than necessary (i.e. even after multiple subsequent positive experiences). For example: The first time I tried to touch a dog, it bit me, so naturally I was cautious the second time I met one. But I still felt cautious after meeting several friendly dogs. Why? Once bitten, twice shy. The implication is of being more risk-averse than is necessary, rather than just risk-averse generally.
Brock – (the early bird catches the worm) October 9, 2018
The early bird all was gets the worm
Stuart Holy – (apple of discord) October 9, 2018
By the time of my graduation at the campus, my young sisters in high schools were also demanding for school fees but it unfortunate that our care taker was sick. The total amount of money she used to split to all of us equalised to the total amount of tuition that would enable me to graduate, so I became an apple of discord to all of them.
Random Internet Nerd – (you can’t teach an old dog new tricks) October 1, 2018
Oh how I love the English of 1534, so difficult for my fragile and young mind to read and comprehend. My inability to understand makes me want to “stoupe” writing this comment and go read more about old human history from 1534 C.E.
