Reader Opinions
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).
Sanjay – (tongue in cheek) November 9, 2016
The fair maid of Perth was in 1828. Not in 1928. Please correct it.
Michayla Rinker – (cloud nine) October 28, 2016
Well today I am not on cloud nine, I am down in the dumps today and I can be more on Cloud nine when I get to go home from school for the weekend and stop worrying over my final exams in high school.
Menuka – (cut your coat according to your cloth) October 23, 2016
We know that Nepalese society is very poor, so how can we cut your cloth according to your cloth in this situation?
Lawrence – (like a chicken with its head cut off) October 22, 2016
Never heard “like a chicken with its head cut off” – I have heard “like a headless chicken” though.
David Hamilton Smith – (bright spark) October 15, 2016
I remember my late grandfather, [who was an engineer] showing me how to tell the different grades of ferrous metals by holding them to a grinding wheel. Soft iron would produce a dull orange spark, mild steel a slightly whiter forked spark and the ‘Bright spark’ would be produced by silver steel, or ‘tool steel’. Also worth noting that tool steel would produce the sharpest tools.
I’m not sure if this was the actual origin of the term, but it’s certainly plausible.
Dirk – (every picture tells a story) September 30, 2016
Its origin does not have an apostrophe!
