Reader Opinions
Sam Schwartz – (buy time) February 1, 2024
This phrase appears in Bible. Daniel 2:8. Nebuchadnezzar accuses the dream interpreters of buying time.
Cecilia Dunlop – (worm in the apple) January 22, 2024
Author, John Cheever, wrote a short story titled The Worm in the Apple. “The story of the Crutchman’s who were so very happy and so temperate in all their habits and so pleased with everything that came their way that one was bound to suspects worm in their rosy Apple and that the extraordinary rosiness of the fruit was only meant to conceal the gravity and the depth of the infection.” Quoted from The Worm in the Apple / The short stories of John Cheever May 2000. Excellent story!
crbrearley – (the devil is beating his wife) January 20, 2024
My grandmother, from New Brunswick, would say “the Devil is beating his wife for pancakes.” It always made me laugh. It’s awful too!
Ken McPherson – (down and out) January 15, 2024
Could it be a combination of two other phrases meaning a person is destitute? Those phrases being: “Down at the heels” and “Out at the elbows”.
Dan – (on top of the world) January 9, 2024
This, among other sources, claim that the phrase appears in text around the 1920s. I’d love to see a source of this, as I can’t find anything confirming this with concrete evidence
Jeffrey A Carlton – (when pigs fly) January 7, 2024
Who knows, if Trump becomes president in 2024 then you’ll know for sure that pigs can fly (although maybe I should say if Biden gets re-elected – both will be moments to look up and expect to see that pig flying overhead.)
Robles María – (catch-22) January 6, 2024
In this scenario, the catch-22 arises from the conflicting requirement of needing work experience to secure a job, yet being unable to acquire work experience without already having a job.
Denise Arnold – (your sins will find you out) January 5, 2024
No matter what you do, you will be found out even if you sin any way you will be found out you cannot hide what you do behind doors. That’s why they say the sin will find you out nothing can be hidden.
Caleb – (I could eat a horse) January 2, 2024
It may have started in Valley Forge (Dec. 19, 1777) or earlier, since I know that during that battle they had to resort to eating their horses, though it may not have been recorded.
Jeremy – (saved by the bell) December 31, 2023
In boxing it meant the fighter has been knocked to the floor with less than 10 seconds to go in the fight. So couldn’t be counted out by the ref as the corner men are allowed in the ring . Old rules of boxing that has been amended for the Queensbury rules.
