Reader Opinions
Princess T – (once bitten, twice shy) May 20, 2021
Example a boy stunk by a bee for the first time trying to catch it but when he sees a bee again he will be more cautious.
Nwekwe Gift – (variety is the spice of life) May 19, 2021
Cracking new occurrence and episode keeps and adds more interest to life.
Carlos – (catch-22) May 19, 2021
But why catch 22. Why not ravioli 6 or Nike 7. Why “Catch (catch what) and 22? 22 of what?
Anonymous – (Punctuation) May 18, 2021
Double and single quotation marks have the same usage put single quotation marks can be quote someone in a quotation.
Anon – (ants in pants) May 18, 2021
I did the search here for the expression after recalling an incident some years ago when I worked in a grocery store. Back then, customers and employees used the same facilities. Anyway, not sure who was responsible for this, but ants were discovered on the toilet seat some time after a customer had used the facility.
Anonymous – (when it rains, it pours) May 17, 2021
Something to think about, this saying appeared in an 1855 publication, “The American Cotton Planter”, long before Morton Salt used it in 1911.
Anthony Joseph Fino – (the benefit of the doubt) May 17, 2021
Adding to the benefit of the doubt is actually feeling the body shaking someone’s hand and promising something against there wishes. Pumping fists is a sort of a contract that I don’t understand either . Spelling is the same way. The law states that your yard grass has to be no more than 3 inches high or you get fined.
Lotte – (hold your horses) May 14, 2021
I stumbled upon this when I was looking for an english idiom that has a similar meaning to a german idiom being “Immer langsam mit den jungen Pferden” [= “always slowly/careful with the young horses”] and it has a very similar meaning to this one, interesting how different idioms of different languages use a similar picture to convey a message.
Chriss – (tar with the same brush) May 13, 2021
I think the sheep idea won’t work because it’s about tarring sheep and maybe another herd, but the phrase is about shame, and you won’t shame a sheep. Now I’ll just wipe the spit up. The tar and feather idea works if you do the same to another person or group, and then they are getting tarred with the same brush.
Lql – (the devil is beating his wife) May 13, 2021
I grew up in New Orleans where we got this weather situation often. My mom (born in 1944) would say it, so I and all my siblings said it also. My ex-husband acted overly offended the first time he heard me say this. I had thought it was at least a national expression, but from his reaction, I gathered not. He had grown up in S. Dakota
