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"The Handwriting Is On The Wall"................
Figuratively, the expression means that some misfortune is impending. |
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"Be Careful What You Wish For, You Might Just get It"........
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"Laugh, And The World Laughs With You; Weep, And You Weep Alone"...
People prefer cheerfulness in others. A person who is cheerful will have company, but someone who is gloomy will often be alone. Sidebar: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, a poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is the author of this saying. |
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I know this is a repeat but i need to say this (under my breath)-if it quacks like a and walks like a ---it's a duck j/s
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This is exactly what I do when I see really bad ideas..... The goodness in the world has no room to flourish if we don't actively weed out the proverbial bad stuff that holds us back or prevents us from truly embracing healthy positive sets of ideas! |
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I think variety is the spice of life and that opposites tend to gravitate toward each other because of their own spice or scent, which seems soooo Intriguing.... |
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....Some things are better left unsaid.....
Most nearly always people presume this statement to have an additional hidden meaning, that you shouldn't verbalize thoughts that could land you in trouble. And while I agree with the generally accepted meaning behind this phrase, I use the phrase slightly differently: When I use this phrase it's because I think there are things that truly are better left unsaid. I tend to favor statements that stand on their own with no hidden hurtful meaning! |
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it's written all over your face
This expression is typically believed to be true, in that most always your inner feelings and emotions with manifest in non-verbal ways....in unmistakable ways. That's what the study of nonverbal communication is primarily about....the study of nonverbal cues showing up in the environment as Body Language or in other physical forms, such as written text, style of writing, or any other number of 'bread crumbs' left behind in the proverbial 'scene of the crime'. |
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Bend Over Backwards......................
To exert a lot of effort towards some end. This phrase is often used to express frustration when one's efforts go unrecognized. |
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Head Over Heels"...........................
Completely, thoroughly. Sidebar: This expression originated in the 1300s as heels over head and meant literally being upside down. It took its present form in the 1700s and its present meaning in the 1800s. |
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"Fly By The Seat Of Your Pants................
To rely on one's instinct, as opposed to acting according to a set plan. If you fly by the seat of your pants, you use your judgment and intelligence to do something that you have never done before, in a way that is risky, because you have no experience or training to rely on. |
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"If It Looks Like A Duck And Walks Like A Duck, It Is A Duck"......
If something has all the characteristics of a thing, it is probably that thing, regardless of what it is called or presented as. |
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"On The Straight And Narrow".................
If someone or something keeps you on the straight and narrow, they help you to live a good, honest life and prevent you from doing immoral or illegal things |
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"Not Playing With A Full Deck......."
When someone is not playing with a full deck, he/she is either mentally, psychologically or intellectually deficient. The deck referenced in not playing with a full deck is a deck of cards. Sidebar:There is a popular story that the origin of this phrase dates back to the 1500s, when a tax was levied against decks of cards. |
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Oh mY, You've been banging those Wonder Woman bracelets of yours, again! It's like you read my mind, posting all these great idioms! Well done, well done!
I like it very much when you explain how certain idioms came into existence....im.always fascinated by this kind of stuff. Baseball was a great venue for the spread of idioms, right? <<<<<~~ homoe deserves a big prize for hir herculean efforts to help me list all these sayings (idioms)! |
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"Chasing Your Tail"....................
To chase your tail means to spend a lot of time and energy doing a lot of things but achieving very little. To take action that is ineffectual and does not lead to progress. |
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To Cast One's Bread Upon The Water
To act in generous ways because it's the right thing to do, and not because you think you'll earn an reward. To be generous, kind and loving in the face of opposition, because it's the right thing to do. |
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The best thing since sliced bread
Otto Rohwedder devised a machine to.sluce bread, back in 1928, which revolutionized the way bread was wrapped and marketed as an service product of convenience. And because of this turn of events, which was an welcome feat of convenience in modern inventions of the early 20th century, people coined the phrase to carry broader meaning for depth and appreciation for ease of consumption or ease of delivery which soon became an catch-phrase to describe ease and enjoyment of quality relationships. (Source: wikipedia). |
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