Reader Opinions
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
M Sotil – (break the ice) June 4, 2022
In Shakespear’s The Taming of the Shrew (1590), Tranio: “and if you break the ice and do this feat, achieve the elder, set the younger free for our access.”
Stacey – (Figure of Speech) May 31, 2022
Also need to add:
1. malapropism – the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase
2. palindrome – A word, phrase or sentence that is the same both backwards and forwards is called a palindrome.
Constance W Finley – (beyond the veil) May 27, 2022
I’d heard it was a prison, in Ireland.
Connor S. – (to the nines) May 26, 2022
Could it be that the maximum value on any counting mechanism (dial) would display all 9’s? Building on what KBURKEP said above? I.e. wound all the way up to 9999999….(the nines)
Paul Walkowski – (get your goat) May 24, 2022
I’ve always thought that getting someone’s goat referred to the prodigal son parable. When the son who stayed on his fathers estate and worked faithfully came upon the celebration where the fatted calf was slaughtered to celebrate the prodigal son’s return, the faithful son told the father that he had never been given even a goat to eat with his friends as thanks for years of faithful service. So the prodigal son was “getting his goat” and more, and jealousy was causing him to be angry.
Mr C T McVey – (coin a phrase) May 15, 2022
Coining a phrase means counterfeiting the phrase which has already been produced. (Coining originally meant counterfeiting.)
KT Hart – (pie in the sky) May 14, 2022
A more contemporary meaning of “Pie in the sky” follows the optimistic view of reaching for a lofty dream, a worthy intention or desire resulting in an outcome rooted in higher consciousness.
