You can do anything if you put your mind to it. The pandemic prevented our repeat visit this year.In conversation: “You just graduated at the top of your class. Sources:, , Glen was on ‘cloud nine’ fishing at Lac le Jeune in May 2019 when the trout were biting. That’s all she wrote - for now! (An oft cited origin is the succinct ‘Dear John’ letter written by a woman during WWII to end her relationship with a serviceman.) Originating in the US in the 1800s, the phrase alludes to a practice in which men looking for a physical fight would place a chip of wood on their shoulders and challenge others to knock it off. A chip on your shoulder implies carrying a grudge.The idiom now means reducing something large to simple and brief. Around the 1 st century AD, Cicero saw a copy of Homer’s famous poem, The Iliad, written in miniature form on a parchment that fit into the shell of a walnut. The phrase retains its negative origin: to mistreat a person as he or she mistreated you. When he later falls ill, people give him his own medicine - which he knows will not cure him. In one of Aesop’s fables, a swindler sells fake medicine, claiming it cures all maladies. (Think of Olympic Stadium, the ‘Big O’ - owe - in Montreal.) The term now refers to any burdensome possession. The expense of caring for one often drove the recipient to financial ruin. If an underling or rival angered a Siamese king, he might present the unfortunate man with the ostensible reward of a white elephant. Yet they also represented a subtle form of punishment. Once considered sacred creatures in Thailand, white elephants graced the national flag until 1917. The frustration in trying to remember something is likened to the torture of racking someone. A rack was an instrument of torture consisting of a platform on which victims were stretched and their wrists and ankles tied to the rollers. If a bullet penetrates your head it leaves a hole. Like a hole in the head relates to being shot.The phrase refers to a horse racing bet in which equal amounts are wagered on the same horse to win, place and show. Across the board is something that applies to everyone in an organization, system or society.If anyone came too close, she would say stop looking at me and mind your own beeswax. A lady didn’t want to discuss her exposed scars when warm weather melted the beeswax. Many people died from the disease survivors often had scars and holes on their faces and bodies, which women filled with beeswax. This saying derives from the smallpox epidemic of the 18 th century. The allusion to turning over to a blank page and starting over means to put our past behind and begin anew. The pages of a book were referred to as leaves in the 16 th century. Anyone remaining after an hour was subject to arrest or forceful removal. A public official would read aloud a portion of the Act, ordering people to disperse. Instituted in 1714, the Riot Act gave the British government the authority to deem groups of 12 or more a threat to the peace. Upset parents might threaten to ‘read the riot act’ - issue a stern warning - to rowdy children. Being on it means we’re metaphorically ‘on top of the world’ - i.e. This highest reaching cloud rises up to 10 km into the sky. The most plausible origin of this saying is its relation to the Cumulonimbus cloud, which was assigned the number nine in the 1896 edition of the International Cloud Atlas. In ancient times humans used needles made of bone or wood that look similar to hay, making them difficult to find in haystacks.
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