Reader Opinions
Tadashi Sakuda – (do one’s bit) April 2, 2022
I just wanted to share with you that I heard this idiom used in their conversation between Kiri Te Kanawa and Andre Previn about 22 years ago in Tokyo, Japan.
Arnold Caines – (a fool and his money are easily parted) April 1, 2022
My counterpart to this idiom is, “It is morally reprehensible to allow a fool and his money to remain together.” The idea being that a fool with money will do stupid things, hurting himself and/or others.
Example: The guy just wrecked his brand new Lamborghini. Well, I guess it’s morally reprehensible to allow a fool and his money to remain together.
Lesa – (the devil is beating his wife) March 26, 2022
My 89 year old next door neighbor from Oklahoma is who told me about the devil beating his wife saying. She passed away last year. Today the devil beat his wife here where I live and I thought of my sweet neighbor. I sure miss her!
Karl Werner – (the devil is beating his wife) March 25, 2022
I heard the devil is beating his wife. The rain is God crying.
Terry Johns – (Figure of Speech) March 23, 2022
Which figure of speech is, “Yes, we have no bananas!”
Jessie Hussey – (bad blood) March 23, 2022
Taylor swift’s song “bad blood” is a great example of this idiom!
“Cuz baby now we got BAD BLOOD you know we used to be mad love” you just put that song stuck in my head, lol.
Haiden Grantham-Hogg – (look on the bright side) March 19, 2022
Hello! I would like to ask a question. While reading Agnes grey: a book by Anne Brontë, I found a quote which references the term “looking on the bright side” which is: “to regard the matter on its bright side.” This sparked curiosity within me, and so I went on search for when this term was first used. Is it possible that “look on the bright side” may have originated from this term penned by Anne Brontë or does it have a further connection with history and/or literature and was then modernised into “look on the bright side”?
Thank you for reading!
Fred Vega – (love is blind) March 18, 2022
Love is not blind; it chooses what it wants to see or ignore, similar to how Jesus Christ forgives when you repent.
Jessie Hussey – (add insult to injury) March 18, 2022
For someone who sometimes can’t regulate her emotions, people punished me for being aggressive during a meltdown TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY!
Michael Smith – (spine-tingling) March 15, 2022
This origin cannot be true as the phrase Spine-Tingling Tales appears in a Harvey Comics promo from Witches Tales #9 (April 1952).
