Reader Opinions
Anonymous – (drop a line) January 14, 2021
“I’m just dropping a line.” -I’m thinking about you so writing a small message. Is it how to use this way?
Catalina – (call of the wild) January 13, 2021
The call of the wild is a magic being that gives one that hears it super powers.
Ken – (good grief) January 11, 2021
We are all bound to suffer grief in this broken world. We attempt to deal with it by making our lives a quest for happiness. It never fully satisfies. It’s like a mechanic test-driving a car he’s repaired. Hearing the transmission problem persist he switches the car radio onto his favourite station and turns the volume up high. That’s no fix at all! By entering fully into the grievous sufferings of Easter, Jesus bore our sins. He suffered and died out of love for his people. His was a good grief. He fixed the cause of our brokeness from the inside by paying the penalty for our sins. Although safe in Christ, his people presently still suffer griefs, but God uses them train us and to teach us how to serve as Jesus did. It is good when grief’s power to ruin us is past, instead it trains us to be like the Lord, to please God and help others. Jesus was raised to life on Easter Sunday. For his people heaven awaits. All because of his good grief. Good eh?
Tommy W Box – (the devil is beating his wife) January 11, 2021
As a young child from Texas I remember my mother saying this. I am 54 now.
David – (smell a rat) January 10, 2021
Smelt a rat OR Smelled a rat?
Smell has both an irregular and regular form. You can use both and both are correct. Brits use smelled and smelt interchangeably, but speakers in North America rarely use smelt.
But which is the most used one? Let´s look at Google Ngram Viewer tool which displays a graph showing how phrases have occurred in a corpus of books over the years.
Let´s look at the current online media:
New project to find out what Europe smelt like from 16-20th century – [BBC]
Yaoumbaev told CNN he smelt something extremely unpleasant –[CNN]
Roger Balchin – (year dot) January 10, 2021
I would have thought that the expression ‘The year dot’ might be referring to year Zero, which in Arabic script is a dot (.) or cipher in Arabic.
Kurian – (stone’s throw) January 10, 2021
A stone’s throw distance is mentioned in the bible. So it’s an old idiom.
At that time stoning to death was a common capital punishment. Those throwing stones have to keep a certain distance so that the one on the other side should not get stoned. Moreover, stoning was enjoyed by people so if the prey dies easily, there is no fun.
Probably one can have some reference from the old Greek or roman literature.
Barbara Jean Peterson – (six of one, half a dozen of the other) January 10, 2021
It doesn’t matter what half you take it still equal the same.
Brocode – (fake it till you make it) January 9, 2021
I heard this idiom in a latest movie, so it may get common now.
Anonymous – (add fuel to the flames) January 7, 2021
As I tried to explain to my mother about the broken vase, my sister popped up and tried to add fuel to the fire by complaining about how I broke it.
This sentence should have been there.
