Reader Opinions
Mike Wuzouski – (just deserts) July 1, 2023
@Photog please do more re-surge. The sudden flow of exclamations will overwell you.
Edge – (on top of the world) June 28, 2023
Jimmy Cagney said it at the end of a film.
John A. Wheeler – (home is where the heart is) June 28, 2023
A home could have been a very traumatic experience. The heart today is usually considered to be the seat of emotions mostly certainly including love but a love that rises beyond emotions. Today like the past 59 years I have shared my heart with my wife. Several times we have moved but wherever we set up there our hearts were. There are many types of love for family, friends, significant others, but the love I now share with my wife is the one we promised ourselves would last forever. For us love is where our hearts are.
Gavin Rowley – (call the shots) June 23, 2023
Didn’t it come about much earlier when military men had to be of a certain rank to decide if shots were to be or not to be. Otherwise war would be complete chaos like they are today, a little jab there. Even today the police captain calls the shots, that is, whether or not shots will take place and whether they’ll be:fatal or not. Goes way back to the invention and deployment of the gun.
Jacqui (native British speaker) – (hot potato) June 22, 2023
The key thing about this idiom, that is missing here, is that the hot potato is something that no one wants to deal with and it gets passed from person to person or organisation to organisation, or similar. This is why it is a *hot* potato, no one wants to hold it for long.
Philip J Lillies – (keep your friends close and your enemies closer) June 22, 2023
Well it’s pretty obvious. If you can form an alliance of any sort with you enemies however obnoxious they may be, do everything possible to keep it. The alternative is war. Take the example of Russia.
Christa – (like a hole in the head) June 21, 2023
I agree Peter! It’s a 7000 yr treatment for various things from headaches to mental illness. If they didn’t want a hole in their head, could it be because they didn’t want to be known for having an illness?
Michaei Jones – (forty winks) June 15, 2023
Most British people nowadays refer to a nap as ‘having 40 wanks.’
Sardonic Tim – (happy wife happy life) June 8, 2023
I hear it used (by men) chiefly to acknowledge the importance (or inconvenience) of compromise, and being attentive to (or tolerant of) a wife’s needs as an investment (or ruse) to maintain the health (or appearance) of the marriage. YMMV.
Lesa – (beg to differ) June 8, 2023
I beg to differ. I’m no expert but I feel this is a saying that someone at the side of the king, perhaps a clergyman or family member or squire etc.
The king had those he respects their opinions and ideas at his side It’s seems like something you would say humbly that is accepted or not not by the king to avoid enraging the king. You wouldn’t spew your opinion to the king unless you were allowed to. The king would accept and granted you permission to speak your difference in the matter at hand.
