Reader Opinions
MURDOCK – (banana republic) April 3, 2023
Your Trump example isn’t aging well. 🙄 It seems that he was willing to forgo prosecuting the obvious crimes of HRC, when he was given the opportunity. The example was up-ended when Trump was indicted by a DA who ran on jailing his political enemies.
Ronald Albert Chivers – (every cloud has a silver lining) April 2, 2023
I agree you should “look for the silver lining” in life!—but beware of very strong “cloudbursts” above! (In the days of Noah, it rained for ‘forty days and forty nights’). (“Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink!”). The “silver lining” might be that we would not go thirsty!
Don T. Thompson – (whole nine yards) March 31, 2023
A large sailing vessel has three masts with three sails (yards) on each mast. The whole nine yards meaning a fully rigged ship.
Pramod Kumar Varshney – (make no bones about) March 24, 2023
to discuss something instead of keeping quiet.
one non-sequitor – (home is where the heart is) March 24, 2023
@simon_sidewalk, if you’re indeed homeless then your home is where your heart and so when life presents you with lemons, take them as melons.
Giant Baba – (straight shooter) March 21, 2023
It is a carny term which originally referred to a gun in a carnival target shooting game that did not have its sights misaligned.
Iain Oliver – (dot the i’s and cross the t’s) March 19, 2023
It is used in Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens, which was published in 1839.
Anonymous – (last laugh) March 18, 2023
My husband and I have the last laugh over my evil brother-in-law, who wanted me and my husband out of my father-in-law‘s mother daughter house when he passed away. He threatened to get an attorney to have us evicted. We ended up buying a home in Florida and soon after that my brother-in-law was arrested eight times, yes, eight times over the course of a few months. He’s going through a divorce. He cannot see his children and this is the greatest satisfaction. He actually wanted my husband to bail him out of jail! We had the last laugh!!
Banana – (son of a gun) March 17, 2023
Marty, in that case (and in many cases) it was presumably used as a more family friendly replacement for “son of a b***h”, lol
Anonymous – (larger than life) March 7, 2023
It was used at least once earlier to refer to Apollo’s lute in the early 1800s
