Reader Opinions
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 one’s 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!
Gordon – (cloud nine) January 6, 2022
My uncle (long dead now) was an Air Force Fighter pilot during WWII and he had his own private airplane after the war. In the 50’s, he bought a Mooney airplane and said it went high but not over ‘cloud 9’ like a jet fighter of the period. He said it wasn’t until then we could reach the tops of storms
Anonymous – (ballpark figure) January 5, 2022
Around the world? Nobody but America…
Ve – (over and out) January 3, 2022
This article could made it more clear that ‘over and out
is only used in movies, and never* in real life.
(* well… because of the great influence from movies, I actually _have_ heard it being used live. But never without someone else sniggering.)
Blake – (the eleventh hour) December 31, 2021
I’m going to assume by “unlikely”, the author was trying to allude to the ambiguity surrounding the phrase’s origins, and that the Bible wouldn’t be where most people would have thought it came from? That would make more sense than outright stating that the biblical origins are probably inaccurate, given the authors understanding that there was no mention of the idiom prior to the Bible. Perhaps “unexpected” or “unconventional” would have been a better word to use.
Ilyas – (bottom line) December 29, 2021
I think that the bottom line has a meaning of profit, or hasn’t it?
