Reader Opinions
Jo – (de jure) September 9, 2020
I am confused and having trouble in understaning De jure and De facto. How sad. 🙁
Bard Taoheed Mohammed – (Figure of Speech) September 9, 2020
This is a good site! I am poet Timmy
Ali – (monkey business) September 8, 2020
What’s the Monkey business going on here?
Would this be a correct sentence /phrase ?
Saijayalakshmi – (don’t give up the day job) September 8, 2020
Probably I feel the object clause is from day job referring to active thinking, the etymology might be from office computers, the night work series. Because it’s a job it has to be in day, friends could you please help me out?
Rebecca – (sixth sense) September 7, 2020
I have a intuition that something is about to happen, my whole body is tingling & I can feel a presence around me, it’s like a feeling of being protected
ANON – (the devil is beating his wife) September 6, 2020
North Florida here. I have heard “The devil is beating his wife” all of my 5 decades of life. Even the grandparents used it.
“Sun showers” sounds so much nicer 🙂
EJ – (sticky fingers) September 5, 2020
According to other trivia sources, petty theft, ie “sticky fingers” came from the gold mining industry where those sifting the dig plate put sap/honey on their fingers to collect gold dust When weighing for payment. Thus, stealing from the gold finder & pocketing value from the bankers. (Of course, this could be a myth retold by my grandfather – born in 1899 – from his mining grandfather!)
M Roine – (you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs) September 5, 2020
You can’t feed a people without hurting animals … but that doesn’t make it right. It never makes it right because what it is in itself and because it is a step towards the destruction of the planet. People may laugh at me because of what I believe in but I know in my heart that the truth has always been there and has been offered to me. In this context I wish to be an advocate of animal rights.
Anonymous – (fit as a fiddle) September 4, 2020
Q1. ‘fit as a fiddle’ – it refers ———-
a) To become friendly
b) very fit and healthy
c) suspected for doing a wrong
d) to catch attention of others
Colin – (dig heels in) September 4, 2020
When competing in “tug-of-war” the easiest way to prevent being moved from your position is to dig in your heels.
