Reader Opinions
Brian – (New York minute) July 8, 2022
I heard it is the amount of time between the light turning green and the person in the car behind you honking their horn.
Anonymous – (the devil is in the detail) July 7, 2022
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is a German architect who’s widely crediting with saying “God is in the details”.
Kenny Lentz – (you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink) July 7, 2022
You can lead a horse to water (provide wisdom or opportunity) but you cannot make the horse drink : If the horse carries on without drinking due to it’s own stubbornness, the horse may not find water again on this journey therefore succumb to it’s own stubbornness. If a human does not absorb the wisdom or act on opportunity, it is their own stubbornness that results in avoidable failure.)
Cindy – (sleep tight) July 2, 2022
I always thought it was referring to being “tucked in” which makes your blanket tight and snug around you.
Dharmadasa Perera – (way forward) June 29, 2022
At this illustration of this phrase it’s necessary to say something about the “looking forward” too.
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.’
