Reader Opinions
Ameri Khan – (dig one’s own grave) June 28, 2022
Introducing politics into Supreme Court decisions on abortion and other issues is akin to digging your own grave in American politics.
Jim – (the devil is beating his wife) June 27, 2022
I’ve been told that in Scandinavia they say “There’s a marriage in hades”
Lourdes Dacuma – (money doesn’t grow on trees) June 20, 2022
When I was growing up, I never receive any allowance for doing any chores at home. It was part of my responsibility to contribute to our household. Parents provides what we need including a college education. I do hear my mother telling me and my siblings “we buy what is essential as money just do not grow on trees”. I’m reminded of this idiomatic expression since we are now facing recession!
Lesego – (burn the candle at both ends) June 15, 2022
What does it both burning candles close to each end up join each other?
Angela White – (faint of heart) June 15, 2022
Faint-hearted dates from around 1400 and means cowardly, timorous, growing weak or unable to rise to the occasion. Faint derives from the Old French ‘faint’ or ‘feint’ which meant false, deceitful, weak or cowardly from the past participle of ‘feindre’. In the Adages of Erasmus (c1545) comes ‘Faint heart never won fair maiden.’
Dawn – (crack of dawn) June 14, 2022
How about when it comes above the horizon, it looks like a cracked egg?
Anonymous – (take it on the chin) June 12, 2022
I think it also refers to balls, as in sucking dick
Anonymous – (Figure of Speech) June 8, 2022
What figure of speech is “flowers dose their eyes”
Nancy Werley – (sitting duck) June 5, 2022
Ducks will fall asleep in water that will freeze around them making them easy prey for anything while they are stuck, hence a sitting duck
Kevin – (water under the bridge) June 4, 2022
The bridge protects you from the water under it. So, when an issue is “water under the bridge,” it can’t affect you; you’re protected from it. To me this is a more logical explanation
