Reader Opinions
Gabriel Latham – (keen as mustard) August 26, 2022
I thought it was from the company called “Keen’s” that make mustard.
fm – (don’t look a gift horse in the mouth) August 22, 2022
I always thought it meant that don’t look because you will not like what you find.
Yugo1133! – (when pigs fly) August 20, 2022
Strap a jet pack to that bad boy and he can fly. All about perspective.
Gerald Roos – (upset the applecart) August 17, 2022
Apple picker collects his apples in a cart on wheels. Then someone comes along a tips the cart over and they all fall out. The picker now has to start collecting his apples all over again because someone else upset his apple cart.
Geoff. Dixon – (all that glitters is not gold) August 16, 2022
It is all a bit vague. If the original version was , “All that GLISTERS is not gold” then do we have a quotation well prior to the use of “glitters” (WS in MofV) to prove the use of “glisters”? Clearly as you say Chaucer used a similar idea, but can we actually trace the word “glisters” in any early literature ?
jack draughn – (crack of dawn) August 13, 2022
fm a milatary air navagator: around 3:00 e.s.t about 6:00 mid atlantic the sozzing pilotwoke up and said it stiinks in here copilot did you fart? copilot said no was i supposed to? nav. said “pilot that is the crack of dawn”.
sally – (the devil is beating his wife) August 11, 2022
I LOVE old sayings, though this one is a bit harsh! I can’t remember where I hear it first. but grew up in Dallas and have been in Austin since ’95.
Connie – (water under the bridge) August 6, 2022
I have always visualized this as puddles of water under a bridge on dry land that serve no significant purpose and eventually dry up.
Ro M – (cut the cord) August 1, 2022
I think of it in relation to divorce. Some pagans use actual cords to celebrate handfasting, aka marriage in a handfasting ritual. The cords are wrapped around the parties being married by the celebrant. If they part ways somewhere down the line then the cord is taken out and cut in half.
David Lee – (forty winks) July 30, 2022
I also had the same question as Denzel Finley. I was having a discussion about this with my wife and ended up searching for an origin of the idiom on Google, which led me to this website. I wonder if there are people who might have the same enquiry as me out there. If you do please leave a comment.
