Reader Opinions
Helena Fontaine – (vent spleen) July 23, 2020
…replaced by ‘let off steam’…as in steam engines… the dehumanization of Homo sapiens in the machine age…
yakubu Grace Amen – (Nouns) July 23, 2020
Add a missing information or your thoughts on this page …it was so easy using this piece to Tracy kids.thank you
Penelope Weddell – (the devil is beating his wife) July 23, 2020
Wow! I have never heard this expression. I am an English born South African and in South Africa we say it is a monkey’s wedding when it rains whilst the sun shines?
Anonymous – (the devil is beating his wife) July 22, 2020
We actually used to say “the devil is beating his wife and burning his biscuits?!” Where the heck did we get this?
Anonymous – (as for) July 21, 2020
I think, “as for me” is same to “as according to me.” Isn’t it?
Alex – (knotty problem) July 17, 2020
Well… A gordian knot is a metaphor for a very complicated problem , and the tale of the actual Gordian knot that Alexander unraveled by slicing it with his sword has been common knowledge for centuries.
I’m not sure that’s the true origin of the idiom, but I reckon it might have something to do with it.
Andrew Omo – (grass is always greener on the other side) July 16, 2020
The idiom does not ring true all the time. One needs to change job if the opportunity presents itself.
Steven Avalos – (when hell freezes over) July 16, 2020
In Dante’s Inferno, the 9th Circle is frozen. This is the place where the traitors are punished, where Satan was thrust into ice when he was cast out of heaven for trying to overthrow God. Could the idiom have any connection to this?
Mike Webber – (the devil is beating his wife) July 15, 2020
I was born in Virginia near where the Earl Hamner (Walton) family was from. My grandfather always said when it rains when the sun is shining it means the devil is beating his wife.
Mr Terence Rattigan – (you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs) July 14, 2020
Surely, the phrase implies breaking others to achieve your own desired results.
