Reader Opinions
Wwhilt – (the pen is mightier than the sword) November 18, 2017
This idiom is attributed to Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839.
Ashis Kumar Dinda – (dark horse) November 18, 2017
The origin is Very helpful to remember.
Amy – (give the devil his due) November 16, 2017
Oh, thank God, finally, I’ve found the origin of the proverb.
Luana – (third time’s a charm) November 14, 2017
I wish I could find more specific answers. Thought to be related to the Holy Trinity is not definite.
Anonymous – (grass is always greener on the other side) November 9, 2017
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket definition. Don’t concentrate all your prospects or resources in one thing or place, or you could lose everything.
Giorge – (cost an arm and a leg) November 7, 2017
It originates in pharaonic Egypt – the man who lost an arm & a leg as punishment (for sleeping with the pharo concubines) is depicted (a man with one hand and one leg and very erected ‘manhood’) among the reliefs of the great temple of Kernak – if you visit that temple check it out.
Matthew Kiehl – (God helps those who help themselves) November 2, 2017
I think this idiom may have come from Aesop’s “Hercules and the Waggoner”, which ends saying, “The gods help them that help themselves.”
Bob – (as mad as a hatter) October 31, 2017
Some things are worth living for
Fatima – (no man is an island) October 30, 2017
@Jane
The literary origin of this phrase is highly speculated to be John Donne’s “Devotion upon emergent occasions and seuerall steps in my sickness – Meditaion 17” from the year 1624 but the thought is speculated to be older than that.
Thank you,
The Idioms Team.
Shreya – (burn the midnight oil) October 29, 2017
Can we have a positive sentence because in these sentences we are telling children to work late at night at last moment?
