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The Idioms – (in deep water) January 27, 2017
We are really sorry for inconvenience dear Dawn.
We always try our best to bring our user the maximum information about every idiom. Our contributors and authors couldn’t find much about “in deep water” phrase, that’s why it looks incomplete.
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The Idioms Team
Seeya – (cock and bull story) January 26, 2017
She pursues her boss with cock and bull story to sanction her leave for next week.
Is it correct?
Dawn – (in deep water) January 22, 2017
The information on Google for this idiom and others I’ve seen states that you provide the origin. You do not. It is misleading and frustrating as I’m trying to give information for my students in class. I suggest you update this so as not to provide misinformation.
Praveen Kumar Reddy – (a bed of roses) January 20, 2017
Whenever we take a bold decisions, whether it is comes a bed of roses or not.
Jane Howard – (die in harness) January 15, 2017
Its a reference to a ‘war horse”, when armies rode to war. A member of the military who dies while still in service dies “in harness”. A different way (poetic even) of saying the person was working up until his death and as horses are thought of as god’s most noble creature, is a way of honoring him (or her). This naturally led to the term being used in other professions as well.
Example: Joseph Radetzky, a veteran of Marengo, Wagram and other smoky battles of the Napoleonic wars, was one of the military glories of the now defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lived to be over 90 and died in harness. For years he fought the red-tape artists who taught that military science, like the Rock of Ages, never changed.
The measure of his success, as chief of staff and Field Marshal, may be found in the fact that during his lifetime Austria occasionally won a fight. After his death came the evil days; Austria was beaten by Louis Napoleon, by Bismarck, and, finally, in the World War. Francis Joseph, fated to rule the Austro-Hungarian Empire for some three-quarters of a century, was not born under a military star; he went forth to battle and he always- well, almost always- fell.
Marianne – (bury the hatchet) January 8, 2017
After a few months, Janet and Mary decided to bury the hatchet and become friends again.
Anmol Walia – (crush) January 2, 2017
I think its true every one in life get crush. I also have crush on my classmate. I tell this to friends. I real like him.
– Anmol Walia
Jacinda – (steal thunder) December 19, 2016
Wow I didn’t know that.
Azi – (cold feet) December 14, 2016
I got cold feet when I want to speak in public.
Lo Oe – (bend over backwards) December 1, 2016
The image that comes to my mind when I hear the expression, “bend over backwards” is of how people counterweight a heavy load they carry in their arms by bending backwards. To me it means carrying more than a fair share of the load (of work).
