Reader Opinions
Anonymous – (under the weather) January 31, 2022
I had a long tripe and now i feel a bit under the water. I am tickled pink for learning this idiom. Thank you!
Donna – (put your foot in it) January 29, 2022
I also wonder about the way it is used today, mainly in black communities, to refer to how someone cooks well. As in “girl you put yo foot in dis chicken.” I think it is a reference to when a dog puts his foot in a plate to lick every last morsel off so as not to miss a drop. The dog had to work hard to get it all therefore “he put his foot in it” to hold the plate down to accomplish the feat.
Connie Greer – (come what may) January 27, 2022
Come with May and Michael forever together. Most beautiful angels gods blessings are going home . Father is waiting on us .
Flash – (vice versa) January 26, 2022
“I’ll say a word and you say the first thing that comes to mind, okay?”
“Okay.”
“Glove?”
“Muffin.”
“What the hell?”
“Muffin?”
“Yup. Or VICE VERSA.”
“Please leave.”😑
Michael Joseph Foy – (put your foot in it) January 21, 2022
Also; “Stepped in it”, meaning to be in a sticky, smelly or otherwise repugnant situation.
Stef – (that’s the way the cookie crumbles) January 21, 2022
In the Twilight zone, season 3, episode 20 the narrator says that at the end of the episode.
Fitz Turner – (bee in bonnet) January 15, 2022
The term has changed from the earlier legend, The thistle and bee story, https://macinnes.org/symbols/bee_story.html
The Chief of Kinlochaline’s answer was “Friendship will ever be ours, whilst the bee on the thistle is with me and with every member of the Clan MacInnes who carries the favour in his bonnet.”
This would suggest it is good to have a bee in the bonnet, and not scatterbrained.
Gulnaz – (a bed of roses) January 14, 2022
Life is to face problems we find solutions make it in simplest form we Find shortcuts that suit us … Spiritual satisfaction is awarded Or God gifted..when you get it you stop efforts that is love .
M.L. – (between a rock and a hard place) January 13, 2022
Rock and a hard place. Capped at 40 paid hrs a week by the state with a live in client who requires round the clock medical care.
Jose D. – (apple of eye) January 8, 2022
I ran into this “Apple of your eye” phrase recently in Proverbs 7:2. I just knew that couldn’t have been what Solomon wrote and that it had to be from an English translation. Through research, I found that it was inserted when the KJV was written around 1610-1615. Your article is right on. I knew this saying from when I was young, but was just checking to be sure that I was interpreting it correctly. Thank you!
