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  • Quotation Attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson (quote, quotes, quoted)


  • Origin of the Term "Politically Correct"


  • Origin of Term "Cut to the Chase". (quote, quotes, quotation, quotations)


  • Birds of a Feather (proverb, proverbs)


  • Practice Random Acts of Kindness Origin (quote, quotes, quotation, quotations, )


  • To Bury the Hatchet (cliche, cliches)





  • I Would Pick More Daisies Quote (quote, quotation, daisy)



  • Quotation: "A Rain-Soaked Fishing Village Midway... (quotation, quotations, saying, sayings) (quote, quotes)(Seattle)



  • Bell, Book and Candle Definition (phrase)



  • By the skin of one's teeth. (cliche, cliches)


  • A camel through a needles eye. (proverb, proverbs)


  • Cat got your tongue? (Cliche, cliches)(cat got your tongue)


  • One's chickens come home to roost. (proverb, proverbs)


  • Unofficial Popular Motto of the U.S. Post Office (United States Postal Service, slogan, sleet, stop, not)


  • Origin of New York's nickname, "The Big Apple" (nick name, New York City, Manhatten)


  • Origin and meaning of Catch 22 (catch, twenty two, twenty-two)


  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (quote) (quotation)


  • In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up... (quote) (quotation)


  • Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day, Show ............(teach) Him how to Catch Fish....(proverb, probverbs, saying, sayings. word, words)




  • Those who cannot remember the past... (history, quote, doom, doomed, quotation, learn) (learns, learned)


  • Warning, When I am an old woman I shall wear purple... (quote) (quotation) (poem)


  • The Opera Ain't Over til the Fat Lady Sings or It's Not Over till it's over (quote, quotation, sing)


  • Now is the time for all good men... (quote, quotation, quotations, quotes)

  • When the going gets ough, the tough get going (quote, quotes, quotation, quotations)




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  • Chicken in every pot... (quotation)(Quote)(chickens)


  • A Chip on your Shoulder, to have a(chip, cliche, cliches)


  • To cook someone's goose. (cliche, cliches)


  • Don't count your chickens before they hatch. (proverb, proverb)


  • Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth. (proverb, proverbs)(Never Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth)


  • Every cloud has a silver lining. (cliche, cliches)


  • Origin of the phrase Close, but no cigar


  • A feather in one's cap. (cliche, cliches)


  • Johnny-come-lately. (cliche, cliches)


  • Civilization Quotation (quote, Hubert H. Humphrey, civilizations)




  • Origin of "The whole nine yards" (phrase) (cliche)



  • Irish Blessing (Irish Prayer) (Irish Curse) (quotation) (quote)

  • Possible meanings of the term "Black Dutch"

  • For auld lang syne/for old times' sake (cliche) (cliches) (New Year's Eve)

  • To go scot-free (cliche) (cliches)

  • Author of Desiderata (Quote) (Quotation) (Authorship)

  • See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. (monkey) (monkeys) (three) (Japanese legend)


  • To have a bone to pick (cliche) (cliches)


  • Cannot/not fit to hold a candle to. (proverb, proverbs)


  • A horse of another/different color. (cliche, cliches, horse)


  • A Lame Duck (cliche, cliches)


  • Leave no stone unturned. (proverb,proverbs)


  • In the limelight. (cliche, cliches)


  • To kick the bucket. (cliche, cliches)


  • Kit and caboodle, (the whole). (cliche, cliches)

  • To let the cat out of the bag. (cliche, cliches)

  • Leading/living the life of Reilly. (cliche, cliches)

  • Mad as a hatter. (cliche,cliches)

  • To mind one's p's and q's. (cliche, cliches)

  • Necessity is the Mother of Invention. (proverb, proverbs)


  • To be sitting on cloud nine. (cliche, cliches)

  • To be on the rocks. (cliche, cliches)

  • To be on the wagon. (cliche, cliches)

  • To pass the buck. (cliche, cliches)

  • Pleased as Punch. (cliche, cliches)

  • If/when push comes to shove. (cliche, cliches)

  • It's raining cats and dogs. (cliche, cliches)

  • To read the riot act. (cliche, cliches)

  • The real McCoy. (cliche, cliches)

  • To sell down the river. (cliche, cliches)

  • Son of a gun. (cliche, cliches)

  • Tit for tat. (cliche, cliches)

  • Theirs not to reason why... quote (quotes, quotation, quotations)

  • To wear one's heart on one's sleeve. (cliche, cliches)

  • To take with a grain/pinch of salt. (cliche, cliches)

  • Origin of Dog Days (Folklore, Sirius, Star, Roman)

  • Origin of the Twenty-One Gun Salute (21)


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    Last Updated: April 28, 2008