Reader Opinions
Gregg R. Brown – (high time) October 24, 2021
Romans 13:11 (KJV): And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Anonymous – (throw under the bus) October 23, 2021
I said “sweep it under the bus”
Dominick Allen – (a fish out of water) October 21, 2021
Chaucer’s Canterbury tales has the phrase
“Is likned til a fissh that is waterless”
General prologue: line 180
Esteban – (upper hand) October 19, 2021
I always thought it was biblical in origin in that only when Moses arms and of course hands were uplifted did the battle go in the favor of the israelites.
Meteor – (burn the midnight oil) October 18, 2021
Candles? The cited first instance in 1635 doesn’t say anything about candles. An oil lamp provides more illumination.
Anonymous – (love rat) October 17, 2021
Other meanings of love rat:
- Love rat is also when a woman has an affair.
- The act of a woman cheating on her husband, a woman cheating on another man, a woman being unfaithful.
- Rat can refer to a person of either gender.
Anonymous – (after blood) October 12, 2021
Tracking a herd predator, like a wolf for example, by following the blood trails?
Ramesh Joshi – (run across) October 11, 2021
To ‘run across’ term may have initially come from a morning jogger who may come across unexpectedly another jogger already known to him.
Mel – (burn the midnight oil) October 11, 2021
The word oil was used in various phrases referring to the use of oil in a lamp for nocturnal study. For example, to lose one’s oil meant to study or labour in vain.
Mel – (burn the midnight oil) October 11, 2021
The idiom actually came about in the 17th century relating to the burning of oil lamps as a source of light, not candles.
