Reader Opinions
Snehal – (Verbs) March 13, 2021
I’ve never learned Types of Verbs as completely or as smoothly before! This is fantastic! Kudos to whoever put it across so well!
Melissa – (mark my words) March 13, 2021
To Anonymous: I thought the “mark” meant to write the words down (as in to mark up a page), so one could refer back to them? But that was just a guess.
David – (everything but the kitchen sink) March 13, 2021
“I believe the saying came from the 50’s because my mom told me that the houses did not have kitchen sinks & they would bring their own kitchen sink each time they moved to a new house,” How can the saying have originated in the 1950s if it was in use before then?
Cynthia Wilson-Hatton – (too close for comfort) March 12, 2021
I often feel most people lack boundaries and that’s when misunderstandings occur because people get “too close for comfort” and heavily rely on others for validation.
Olivia – (against the clock) March 11, 2021
Against the clock can describe those kinds of shows (baking shows) that have people race not only against each other, but also against time itself.
Ayin Raah – (like a hole in the head) March 11, 2021
This comes from Jewish Ritual Murder like they did to Simon of Trent.
JohnK – (keep your chin up) March 10, 2021
I disagree with most of these comments, because I have never heard it used, nor would it be sensible to use the phrase to mean “Hey! Suck it up! You’re being a baby!” Language is malleable, and the number one rule of communication is “know your audience”.
Thus, I have always heard the phrase said in a “I have faith in you” kind of way as one might say one of the following to encourage someone: “we’ll get theough this.”/ “this too shall pass.”
It is almost said ironically, as a near admission at how hollow the words alone are, by which the sentiment of belief in the person is magnified.
Abigail Owusu Opoku – (eat humble pie) March 10, 2021
I have learnt so much. Never knew about such a site.
Ekomobong Etteh – (crush) March 10, 2021
Sometimes its hard to open up to your crush especially when you are very close to him or her.
Craig Fritz – (weak in the knees) March 9, 2021
A term possibly of maritime origin. A deteriorating wooden sailing vessel may literally have “weak knees”, which are the structural members that join the hull frames to the deck work.
“Weak in the knees” actually makes sense in this context whereas human knees offer little in the way of sensation and a person who is feeling faint is far more likely to attribute it dizziness in their head than to failing knees. Other than a person with arthritis or a meniscus tear, who takes much awareness of their knees?
