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all mouth and trousers (W3)
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This strange expression comes from the north of England and is used, mainly by women in my experience, as a sharp-tongued and effective putdown of a certain kind of pushy, over-confident male. Proverbial expressions like this are notoriously hard to pin down: we have no idea exactly where it comes from nor when it first appeared, although it is recorded from the latter part of the 19th century onwards. However, we're fairly sure that it is a pairing of "mouth'', meaning insolence or cheekiness, with "trousers'', a pushy sexual bravado. It's a wonderful example of metonymy ("a container for the thing contained'').
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Founded in January 1995 as the world's first refered electronic journal of international proverb studies, De Proverbio (Latin: About the Proverb) soon became a book publisher also, devoted to paremiology (study of proverbs) and paremiography (collection of proverbs).
Eine kluge Frage ist die Hälfte des Wissens
Prudens interrogatio quasi dimidium scientiae (W3)
Diese Erkenntnis verdanken wir dem englischen Philosophen und Staatsmann Francis Bacon (1561-1626), (De dignitate et augmentis scientiae V,3, englisch, 1605, deutsch 1783).
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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton.
XIV. The Beginnings of English Philosophy.
Bibliography.
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Bacon, Francis (lat. "Baco von Verulam"), geb. 22. Januar 1561 in London als Sohn eines hohen Beamten, studierte in Cambridge, widmete sich der Jurisprudenz, wurde Kronanwalt, Mitglied des Parlaments; 1618 wurde er Lordkanzler und "Baron von Verulam", dann "Viscount von St. Albans". Er wurde (1621) der Bestechlichkeit beschuldigt und (vom Parlament) zu einer großen Geldstrafe und zum Verlust seiner Ämter verurteilt. Vom König (Jacob) begnadigt, lebte er nur noch wissenschaftlichen Studien und starb am 9. April 1626 zu Highate bei London. Sein Charakter war, wenn auch bei weitem kein fleckenloser, doch nicht so schlimm, als es oft behauptet wurde.
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George Bernhard Shaw stellte fest: "English is the easiest language to speak badly."
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Fluch der Pharaonen (W3)
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Es war ein Jubeltag für die Ägyptologie, als der englische Altertumsforscher Howard Carter 1922 die mehr als 3200 Jahre alte Ruhestätte des Pharaos Tutanchamun im Tal der Könige öffnete. Doch wenige Monate später waren fünf der Archäologen und Besucher, die das Grab betreten hatten, tot. "Der Fluch des Pharao" habe die Männer umgebracht, mutmaßten damals Zeitungsreporter. Eine glaubhafte Theorie über die Todesursache wurde erst sehr viel später publik. Demnach hieß der "Täter" Aspergillus Flavus - auf Deutsch: Gelber Gießkannenschimmelpilz. Der Theorie nach hatten die Forscher in der Grabkammer Schimmel-Sporen eingeatmet. Im Freien tummeln sich bis zu 1000 Keime in einem Kubikmeter Luft. In schimmelbefallenen Räumen können es bis zu 50 000 sein. Menschen mit schwacher Gesundheit erkranken an Atemnot, Husten, Fieber - und schlimmstenfalls sterben sie sogar.
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Die Sammlung der englischen Redewendungen enthält zwar keine Hinweise zur Herkunft, aber ist als Ideensammlung für das Etymologie-Portal dennoch ganz interessant.
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Head over heels (W3)
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We are so conditioned by our knowledge of idioms that we rarely stop to think about what they really mean. This example is more than a little weird when you do so – what's so strange about having one's head over one's heels? We do, after all, spend most of our waking lives in that position.
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get on one's high horse = to become offended in an angry and arrogant way = auf eine arrogante Art, höchst beleidigt zu sein; auf dem hohen Ross
Change horses midstream = Change one's opinions in the middle of something
Horses for courses = Each person or thing being employed for the purpose for which it is best suited.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride = If things could be obtained by wishing, poor people would not be poor. (This expression is often used to bring down to earth, someone who is not being particularly realistic)
Wild horses couldn't keep me away = Nothing could keep me away.
Horse feathers! = An exclamation of disbelief
Horse trading = Making business deals after hard and skilful bargaining
A one horse town = A very small, insignificant place
"Isms" are the things the people really say when they open their mouths and speak without first engaging their brains .
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Load of codswallop, codswallop (W3)
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Die Herkunft dieser engl. Redewendung für "Tand" oder "unbrauchbare Idee" ist zwar nicht bekannt, aber es gibt dennoch ein paar Geschichten dazu. Die meistzitierte besagt, dass "Hiram Codd" eine Getränkehersteller im Jahr 1870 eine Technik zur Abfüllung von Limonadeflaschen entwickelte. Dabei wurde eine Glasmurmel als Stopfen in den Flaschenhals eingeführt. Der Überdruck, der beim Schütteln der Flasche entstand, presste die Glaskugel in die Flaschenöffnung. Diese Flasche hiess entsprechend "Codd bottle".
"Wallop" ist ein Slang-Ausdruck für "Bier". Und dass einem echten Biertrinker "Codd's Beer" nicht allzusehr zusagt, kann man auch heute noch nachvollziehen.
Letztlich geht es also um eine Menge "süsses Wasser", das nun mal nicht jedem schmeckt.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush | A bunch of fives | A countenance more in sorrow than in anger | A Daniel come to judgement | A diamond in the rough | A diamond is forever | A dish fit for the gods | A drop in the bucket | A fate worse than death | A feather in one's cap | A fish out of water | A fly in the ointment | A fool's paradise | A foot in the door | A foregone conclusion | A friend in need is a friend indeed | A good man is hard to find | A hard man is good to find | A hiding to nothing - On | A house divided against itself cannot stand | A knight in shining armour | À la carte | À la mode | À legend in one's own lifetime | A leopard cannot change its spots | A little bird told me | A little knowledge is a dangerous thing | A load of cobblers | A man after my own heart | A ministering angel shall my sister be | A nation of shopkeepers | A no-brainer | A picture paints a thousand words | A place for everything and everything in its place | A plague on both your houses | A priori | A riddle wrapped up in an enigma | A rose by any other name would smell as sweet | A rose is a rose is a rose | A safe pair of hands | A sea change | A sledgehammer to crack a nut | A shot in the arm | A sight for sore eyes | A sorry sight | A thing of beauty is a joy forever | A tinker's damn | A wolf in sheep's clothing | A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle | A word in your shell-like | A1 at Lloyds | Abandon all hope ye who enter here | Abide with me | About face | About turn | Above board | Absence makes the heart grow fonder | Absent without leave | Absolute power corrupts absolutely | Accidentally on purpose | According to Hoyle | Ace in the hole | Achilles' heel | Acid test | Across the board | Act of God | Act the giddy goat | Action man | Adam's ale | Aga saga | Against the grain | Age before beauty | Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety | Agree to disagree | Aid and abet | Aide-mémoire | Air kiss | Air quotes | Al fresco | Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio | All agog | All at sea | All fingers and thumbs | All good things come to he who waits | All present and correct | All singing, all dancing | All that glitters is not gold | All things must pass | All you can eat | Alike as two peas in a pod | Alter ego | Amber nectar | An albatross round his neck | An arm and a leg | An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth | An ill wind | An offer he can't refuse | An Oxford scholar | Angry young man | Ankle biter | Annus horribilis | Apple pie order | April fool | Arm candy - see ear candy | Arms akimbo | Ars longa, vita brevis | Arty-farty | As XXX as YYY | As alike as two peas in a pod | As bald as a coot | As black as Newgate's knocker | As brown as a berry | As busy as a bee | As cold as any stone | As cool as a cucumber | As dead as a dodo | As dead as a doornail | As easy as pie | As fine as frog's hair | As fit as a butcher's dog | As fit as a fiddle | As good as gold | As good luck would have it | As happy as a clam | As happy as Larry | As keen as mustard | As mad as a hatter | As mad as a march hare | As old as Methuselah | As old as the hills | As pleased as Punch | As queer as a nine bob note | As straight as a die | As white as snow | Ashes to ashes dust to dust | (Ask not) for whom the bell tolls | (H)asta la vista, baby | At loggerheads | At one fell swoop | At one's beck and call | At sixes and sevens | Auld lang syne
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Baby blues | Baby boomer | Baby father | Back of beyond - The | Back-seat driver | Back the field | Back to basics | Back to square one | Back to the drawing board | Backroom boy | Bad books | Bad egg | Bad hair day | Badgered to death | Bag and baggage | Baker's dozen | Balance of power - The | Balance of trade - The | Bald as a coot | Ball and chain | Bandy words with | Bang on about | Baptism of fire | Barking mad | Barking up the wrong tree | Basket case | Bated breath | Bats in the belfry | Batten down the hatches | Battle royal | Be afraid, be very afraid | Be still, my beating heart | Beef and reef | Beam ends - On your | Beast with two backs | Beat about the bush | Beat swords into ploughshares | Beat a hasty retreat | Beat the living daylights out of someone | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder | Beauty is only skin deep | Beck and call | Bed of roses | Bee in your bonnet | Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard | Been there, done that | Beer and skittles | Bee's knees - The | Beetle-browed | Before you can say Jack Robinson | Beg the question | Behind every great man there's a great woman | Behind the eight ball | Bell, book and candle | Below the belt | Below the salt | Belt and braces | Belt up | Best bib and tucker | Best laid schemes of mice and men - The | Bet your bottom dollar | Better half | Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all | Between a rock and a hard place | Between the Devil and the deep blue sea | Between two stools | Between you, me and the bed-post | Beware of Greeks bearing gifts | Beyond our ken | Beyond the pale | Biblical phrases | Big Apple - The | Big cheese - The | Big Easy - The | Big fish in a small pond | Big wig | Bill Stickers is innocent | Billy-o - Like | Billy no mates | Binge drinking | Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush - A | Birds of a feather flock together | Bite the bullet | Bite the dust | Bitter end - The | Black as Newgate's knocker | Black-on-black | Black sheep of the family | Blast from the past | Blaze a trail | Blind leading the blind - The | Bling-bling | Blonde bombshell | Blood and thunder | Blood is thicker than water | Bloody-minded | Blot on the landscape | Blow a raspberry - see raspberry tart | Blow your mind | Blow your own trumpet | Blue blood | Blue-plate special | Bob's your uncle | Bodice ripper | Body surfing | Bog standard | Bolt from the blue | Bone dry | Bone idle | Bone up on | Booby prize | Booby trap | Boogie-woogie | Booze cruise | Born again | Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth | Born within the sound of Bow Bells | Boss eyed | Bottom-up | Bought the farm | Bowled a maiden over | Box and Cox | Box-seat - in the | Brand spanking new | Brass tacks - get down to | Bread of life - The | Break a leg | Break the ice | Bricks and clicks | Broad in the beam | Brown as a berry | Brownie points | Brummagem screwdriver | Bubble and squeak | Buck stops here - The | Buckle down | Bums on seats | Bun in the oven | Bunch of fives - A | Bunny boiler | Burn the candle at both ends | Burning the midnight oil | Bury the hatchet | Bury your head in the sand | Busy as a bee | Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth | By and large | By gum | By hook or by crook | By the board | By the book | By the short hairs | By the skin of your teeth
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Call a spade a spade | Call of the wild - The | Camera cannot lie - The | Can't hold a candle to | Canteen culture | Carbon-copy | Carbon footprint | Card-sharp | Carey Street - On | Carpe diem | Carry coals to Newcastle | Cash on the nail | Cart before the horse - Put the | Carte blanche | (Ne'er) cast a clout till May be out | Catbird seat - In the | Catch 22 | Cat's Cradle | Caught by the short hairs | Caught red-handed | Chaise lounge | Chalk and cheese | Channel surfing | Charley horse | Charm offensive | Cheap at half the price | Cherchez la femme | Chew the cud | Chick flick | Chinless wonder | Chip off the old block | Chip on his shoulder | Chit-chat | Chock-a-block | Chop and change | Chow down | Christmas box - A | Christmas card verses | Clear blue water | Climb on the bandwagon | Clod-hopper | Close, but no cigar | Close quarters | Close your eyes and think of England | Cloud cuckoo land | Cloud nine | Clue - don't have a | Cobblers - A load of | Cock-sure | Cock a snook | Cock and bull story | Cockney rhyming slang | Cogito ergo sum | Coin a phrase | Cold as any stone | Cold comfort | Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey | Cold feet | Cold shoulder | Cold turkey | Collywobbles - The | Colour up | Come a cropper | Come on down | Come up trumps | Come what come may | Comes to the crunch - (When it) | (Coming in) on a wing and a prayer | Comparisons are odious | Compassion fatigue | Cook the books | Cool as a cucumber | Cool Britannia | Cop an attitude | Copper-bottomed | Cor blimey | Cordon bleu | Cost an arm and a leg | Countenance more in sorrow than in anger - A | Counting sheep | Course of true love never did run smooth - The | Crack of doom - The | Crapper - The | Crocodile tears | Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war | Curate's egg | Curiosity killed the cat | Curry favour | Customer is always right - The | Cut and run | Cut of your jib - The | Cut off your nose to spite your face | Cut the mustard | Cut to the chase
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Dance attendance on | Daniel come to judgement | Darby and Joan | Dark horse | Darling buds of May | Date rape | Davy Jones' locker | Daylight robbery | Dead as a dodo | Dead as a doornail | Dead cat bounce | Dead ringer | Designer stubble | Deus ex machina | Devil and the deep blue sea | Devil Incarnate - The | Devil take the hindmost - The | Devil to pay - The | Diamond in the rough | Diamond is forever - A | Die-hard | Die has been cast - The | Differently abled | Dirt bag | Dish fit for the gods - A | Doesn't know shit from Shinola | Dog days | Dog in the manger | Dog's bollocks | Dog's breakfast | Dog's dinner | Doldrums - in the | Done a runner | Done to a turn | Donkey's years | Don't call us, we'll call you | Don't change horses in midstream | Don't go there | Don't have a clue | Don't keep a dog and bark yourself | Don't let the bastards grind you down | Don't look a gift horse in the mouth | Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs | Double Dutch | Double whammy | Down at heel | Down the pan | Down the tubes | Draw a blank | Dressed to the nines | Drink like a fish | Driving while black | Drop-dead gorgeous | Drop in the bucket - A | Dropping like flies | Drummed out of the army | Ducks and drakes | Dust up | Duvet day
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Ear candy | Early bird catches the worm - The | Easy as pie | Eat drink and be merry | Eat humble pie | Eat my hat | Eaten out of house and home | Economical with the truth | Egg on | Eighty six | Elementary my dear Watson | Elephant in the room | Elvis has left the building | End of story | Et tu, Brute | Ethnic cleansing | Even at the turning of the tide | Everybody out | Exceedingly well read | Exception that proves the rule - The | (Ex)cuse me while I kiss this guy | Excuse my French | Extraordinary rendition | Eye candy - see ear candy | Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
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Face that launched a thousand ships - The | Face the music | Fair and square | Fair play | Fait accompli | Faith will move mountains | Fall from grace | Fall guy | Fall off the back of a lorry | Fall on your sword | Famous for fifteen minutes | Fancy free | Fancy pants | Far be it from me | Far from the madding crowd | Farmers | Fashion victim | Fast and loose | (The) fat of the land | Fate worse than death - A | Feather in one's cap - A | Feeding frenzy | Fellow traveller | Female of the species is more deadly then the male - The | Fiddling while Rome burns | Fie, foh, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman | Field day | Fifteen minutes of fame | Fifth column | Fight the good fight | Filthy rich | Fine as frog's hair | Finger lickin good | Fingers and thumbs | First water | First World | Fish or cut bait | Fish out of water - A | Fit as a butcher's dog | Fit as a fiddle | Flash in the pan | Flat out | Flavor of the month | Flesh and blood | Floozie in the jacuzzi - The | Flotsam and jetsam | Fly by the seat of one's pants | Fly in the ointment | Fly off the handle | Fly on the wall | Foam at the mouth | Fools' gold | Fool's paradise - A | Foot in the door - A | For crying out loud | For ever and a day | For every thing there is a season | For keeps | For the birds | For whom the bell tolls | Forbidden fruit | Foregone conclusion | Forgive them for they know not what they do | Foul play | Four by two | Four corners of the earth | Frailty, thy name is woman | French phrases | Friday afternoon car | Friend in need is a friend indeed - A | Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears | Frog in the throat - A | Frog's hair- as fine as | From sea to shining sea | From strength to strength | Fruits of your loins | Fuddy-duddy | Full Monty - The | Full of piss and vinegar | Full tilt | Funny farm | Fuzzy wuzzy
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Gad zooks (or gadzooks) | Game is afoot - The | Game is up - The | Game of two halves | Gee whiz | Generation X | Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration | Get down to brass tacks | Get off on the wrong foot | Get over it | Get the sack | Get thee behind me Satan | Get underway | Get used to it | Get your dander up | Get your goat | Giddy aunt | Giddy goat | Gild the lily | Ginned up | Ginger | Ginger up | Give a wide berth | Give up the ghost | Glass ceiling | Go and boil your head | Go berserk | Go by the board | Go by the book | Go-faster | Go haywire | Go like the clappers | Go off at half cock | Go out on a limb | Go postal | Go over like a lead balloon | Going to hell in a handbasket | Go pound sand | Go to the mattresses | God is dead | God rot them | Godfrey Daniel | GOLF - Gentlemen only, ladies forbidden | Gone Dolally | Gone for a burton | Good as gold | Good in parts | Good man is hard to find - A | Good men and true | Good riddance | Good Samaritan | Goody two-shoes | Gordon Bennett | Got my mojo working | (Take with a) grain of salt | Grand slam | Granny dumping | Grass up | Great unwashed - the | Green eyed monster | Gregory Peck | Grinning like a Cheshire cat | Gry - Words ending in | Gung ho
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Hairy eyeball | Halcyon days | Half inch | Handbags at ten paces | Hands down | Hanky-panky | Hand over fist | Happy as a clam | Happy as Larry | Happy clappy | Happy slapping | Hard and fast | Hard cheese | Hard man is good to find - A | Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings | Harp on | Hasta la vista, baby | Have a Captain Cook | Have an axe to grind | Haven't got a clue | He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches | He will give the Devil his due | Head over heels | Heads up | Hear hear | Heard it through the grapevine | Heart's content | Heavens to Betsy | Heavens to Murgatroyd | Heavy metal | Heebie-jeebies - The | Hedge your bets | Hell in a handbasket | Hell has no fury like a woman scorned | Hell or high water | Helter-skelter | Here lies one whose name is writ in water | Het up | Hiding to nothing - On a | High, wide and handsome | High and dry | High five | High-flyer | High on the hog | High time | Hissy fit | History is bunk | Hit the ground running | Hit the hay | Hobson's choice | Hocus pocus | Hoi polloi | Hoist by your own petard | Hoity-toity | (Can't) hold a candle to | Hold your horses | Homonyms | Hooray Henry | Horse and cart | Horse feathers | Horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse - A | Horse's mouth - straight from the | Hot off the press | Hot on the heels | House divided against itself cannot stand - A | Houston, we have a problem | How are the mighty fallen | How now brown cow? | How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child | Hugger-mugger | Hung, drawn and quartered | Hunky-dory | Hush puppies
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I bear a charmed life | I have not slept one wink | I have nothing to declare but my genius | I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat | I haven't got a clue | I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips | I spy with my little eye | I will wear my heart upon my sleeve | Identity theft | If I had my druthers | If music be the food of love, play on | If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen | Ill wind | I'll go to the foot of our stairs | I'm stumped | In a pickle | In a quandary | In a trice | In an interesting condition | In like Flynn | In my mind's eye | In someone's bad books | In stitches | In the bag | In the box-seat | In the buff | In the cart | In the catbird seat | In the club | In the doldrums | In the limelight | In the offing | In the pink | In the red | In the twinkling of an eye | In trouble | In your face | Indian giver | Indian summer | Iron hoof | Is the Pope Catholic? | Is the Pope Polish? | Is this a dagger which I see before me? | It came like a bolt from the blue | It is meat and drink to me | It never rains but it pours | It's all grist to the mill | It's better to give than to receive | It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness | It's that man again | Ivory tower
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Jack Palancing | Jack Robinson - Before you can say | Jam tomorrow | Jerry built | Jimmy Horner | Jimmy Riddle | Jobs for the boys | Join the colours | Joined at the hip | Johnny on the spot | Jot or tittle | Jump on the bandwagon | Jump the gun | Jump the shark | Just deserts | Just in time
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Kangaroo court | Katy bar the door | Keep a wide berth | Keen as mustard | Keep body and soul together | Keep schtum | Keep a stiff upper lip | Keep the ball rolling | Keep up with the Joneses | Keep your chin up | Keep your nose to the grindstone | Keep your pecker up | Keep your powder dry | Keepy-uppy | Khyber pass | Kick the bucket | Kick your heels | Kilroy was here | King James' Version of the Bible | Kiss and tell | Kiss me Hardy | (The whole) kit and caboodle | Knee-jerk reaction | Knick-knack | Knight in shining armour | Knock back | Knock off | Knock on wood | Know the ropes | Know your onions | Know which way the wind blows | Knuckle down | Knuckle under
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La-di-da | La dolce vita | Labour of love | Lager frenzy | Laid out in lavender | Lamb to the slaughter | Lame duck | Lardy-dardy | Lark about | Last but not least | Last straw - The | Latin Phrases | Laugh like a drain | Laughing-stock | Lay it on with a trowel | Lead balloon - Go over like a | Lead-pipe cinch | Learn the ropes | Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing | Left in the lurch | Legend in one's own lifetime | Leopard cannot change its spots - A | Less is more | Let not the sun go down on your wrath | Let a thousand flowers bloom | Let the cat out of the bag | Let them eat cake | Let there be light | Let your hair down | Level playing field | Lick and a promise | Lick into shape | Lickety-split | Lie low | Life in the 1500s - folk etymologies | Life of Riley | Life's not all beer and skittles | Life's too short | Like a chicken with its head cut off | Like a moth to a flame | Like being savaged by a dead sheep | Like billy-o | Like the clappers | Like the Dickens | Like two peas in a pod | Little bird told me - A | Little knowledge is a dangerous thing - A | Lions led by donkeys | Live long and prosper | Living daylights | Living off the fat of the land | Living on borrowed time | Lo and behold | Load of cobblers | Load of codswallop | Loaf of bread | Local derby | Lock stock and barrel | Long in the tooth | Loose cannon | Loose lips sink ships | Lose face | Lose your marbles | Loved-up | Love that dare not speak its name - The
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Mad as a hatter | Mad as a march hare | Magical realism | Main chance | Make a bee-line for | Make a virtue of necessity | Make haste | Make him an offer he can't refuse | Make my day | Make no bones about | Make your hair stand on end | Mal de mer | Man after my own heart - A | Man does not live by bread alone | Man's inhumanity to man | Many are called but few are chosen | Many happy returns | Marital aid | Market forces | Marry in haste, repent at leisure | May you live in interesting times | McCoy - The real | Mea culpa | Meat and drink | Meat and two veg. | Meet your Waterloo | Men in suits | Mend fences | Ménage à trois | Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water | Merry Christmas | Mexican wave | Mickey Finn | Middle of the road | Might and main | (The pen is) mightier than the sword | Mighty oaks from little acorns grow | Milk of human kindness | Minced oaths | Mind your p's and q's | Ministering angel shall my sister be - A | Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows | Misquotations | Moaning Minnie | Mondegreens | Montezuma's Revenge | Monty - The full | Moot point | Morbid obesity | More fool you | More honoured in the breach than in the observance | Morning person | Mother country | Mouth-watering | Moveable feast | Moving finger writes - The | Moving the goalposts | Much Ado about Nothing | Much of a muchness | Mud - your name is | Multitude of sins | Mumbo jumbo | Mum's the word | Music has charms to soothe the savage breast | Mutt's nuts - The | Mutt and Jeff | My bad | My better half | My cup runneth over | My giddy aunt | My husband and I | My mind's eye | My old china | My old Dutch | My salad days
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Nail your colours to the mast | Namby-pamby | Name and shame | Name is mud | Nasty, brutish and short | Nation of shopkeepers - A | Nautical phrases | Ne'er cast a clout till May be out | Needs must | Neither a borrower nor a lender be | Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring | Neither here nor there | Nest-egg | Never give a sucker an even break | Never knowingly undersold | Never-never land | Never the twain shall meet | New kid on the block | Nine days' wonder | Nip and tuck | Nip in the bud | Nitty-gritty | No-brainer | No dice | No holds barred | No man is an island | No more cakes and ale? | No names: no pack-drill | No rest for the wicked | No room to swing a cat | No way, Jose | Not playing with a full deck | Not tonight Josephine | Not worth a plugged nickel | Not worth the candle | Nothing is certain but death and taxes | Nothing succeeds like success | Now is the winter of our discontent | Nul points
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O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? | O ye, of little faith | Odds bodkins | Off the record | Off with his head | Oh, they have slain the Earl of Moray and Lady Mondegreen | Okay | Okey-dokey | Old as Methuselah | Old as the hills | Old lang syne - see auld lang syne | On a hiding to nothing | On a wing and a prayer | On Carey Street | On cloud nine | On queer street | On the bubble | On the dole | On the QT | On the shoulders of giants | On the wagon | On the warpath | On with the motley | On your beam ends | On your tod | Once in a blue moon | Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more | One-hit wonder | One for the road | One over the eight | One sandwich short of a picnic | One small step for man | One stop shop | One's heart's content | Open season | (The) order of the boot | Out of sight, out of mind | Out of sorts | Out of the jaws of death | Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings | Over a barrel | Over the moon | Over the top | Overpaid, oversexed, and over here | Oxo cube
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Paddle your own canoe | Paint the town red | Paper tiger | Pass the buck | P.D.Q. - pretty damn quick | Pearls before swine | Pears for your heirs | Peeping Tom | Peg out | Pell-mell | (The) pen is mightier than the sword | (The) penny drops | Pester power | Peter out | Physician heal thyself | Pick 'n' mix | Picture paints a thousand words - A | Picture-perfect | Pie - as easy as | Pie in the sky | Piece of cake | Piece of piss | Pig in a poke | Pigeon-chested | Pig's ear | Pig and whistle | Pin money | (Take with a) pinch of salt | Pipe down | Pipe dream | Piping hot | Place for everything and everything in its place - A | Plague on both your houses - A | Plain sailing | Plates of meat | Play by ear | Play ducks and drakes | Play fast and loose | Play it again Sam | Play the giddy goat | Play the race card | Pleased as Punch | Plugged nickel | Point Percy at the porcelain | Politically correct | Point to point | Pommy bashing | Pond life | Pony and trap | Pop goes the weasel | Pork pies | POSH - Port out, starboard home | Pot calling the kettle black - The | Take potluck | Pound of flesh | Pour oil on troubled waters | Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely | Power dressing | Powers that be - The | Praying at the porcelain altar | Preaching to the choir | Press into service | Prick up your ears | Prime time | Primrose path | Proof of the pudding is in the eating - The | Pull out all the stops | Pull the wool over your eyes | Pull up stakes | Pull yourself up by your bootstraps | Punch above one's weight | Push the boat out | Push the envelope | Put a damper on | Put a sock in it | Put a spanner in the works | Put on the wooden overcoat | Put on your thinking cap | Put paid to | Put the cart before the horse | Put the mockers on | Put the wood in the hole | Put up your dukes | Put your back up | Put your best foot forward | Put your nose out of joint | Pyrrhic victory
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Rabbit and pork | Rack and ruin | Rack your brains | Rag, tag and bobtail | Raining cats and dogs | Raining stair-rods | Raise Cain | Raspberry tart | Raze to the ground | Rat arsed | Read between the lines | Read the riot act | Real McCoy | Red-handed (caught) | Red herring | Red in tooth and claw | Red letter day | Red sky at night ... | Red tape | Reduplication | Religion is the opium of the people | Rhyme nor reason | Rhyming slang | Richard of York gave battle in vain | Richard the Third | Riddle wrapped up in an enigma - A | Riding shotgun | Ring a ring o'roses, a pocketfull of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down | Ring down the curtain | Ring-fencing | Ring the changes | Rinky-dink | Rise and shine | Road less travelled - The | Road apples | Road rage | Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? | Rose by any other name would smell as sweet - A | Rose is a rose is a rose | Rosie Lea | Rough diamond | Route one | Rule of thumb | Rum do | Run a mile | Run amok | Run of the mill | Run out of steam | Run the gauntlet
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Sacred cow | Safe pair of hands - A | Safe sex | Salad days | San fairy Ann | Sandwich short of a picnic | Save face | Saved by the bell | Savoir faire | Say goodnight Gracie | Scarper | Scot free | Scott (Sir Walter - phrases coined by) | Screw your courage to the sticking place | 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy | Sea change | Sealed with a loving kiss | Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness | http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/402100.htmlSee red | Seen better days | Send packing | Senior citizen | Sent to Coventry | Separate the sheep from the goats | Set your teeth on edge | Sex and shopping | Seven-year itch | Sexton Blake | Shebang - The whole | Shaggy dog story | Shake a leg | Shakespeare (phrases and sayings of) | Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? | Shanks' mare/shanks' pony | Share and share alike | Shilly-shally | Ship shape and Bristol fashion | Shit for brains | Shiver my timbers | Shot across the bows | Shot heard 'round the world - The | Shot in the arm | Shot in the dark | Shoot through | Short shrift | Show a leg - see shake a leg | Show your mettle | Shuffle off this mortal coil | Shut your cake-hole | Sick puppy (A) | Sight for sore eyes (A) | Sir Walter Scott (phrases coined by) | Silence is golden | Sixes and sevens - At | Skid row | Skin and blister | (By the) skin of your teeth | (The) sky's the limit | Sledgehammer to crack a nut - A | Sleep like a top | Sleep tight | Sloane Ranger | Smart casual | Smoke and mirrors | So sue me | Soap-dodger | Sold down the river | Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em | Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men, have mediocrity thrust upon them | Something for the weekend sir? | Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue | Son of a gun | Sorry sight | Sound bite | Sour grapes | Space, the final frontier | Spare the rod and spoil the child | Speak of the Devil | Speak softly and carry a big stick | Special relationship | Spelling-bee | Spend a penny | Spick and span | Spill the beans | Spin doctor | Spitting image | Spruce-up | Square meal | Stand and deliver | Stand up guy | Standing on the shoulders of giants | Star-crossed lovers | Start from scratch | Stark, raving mad | Steal a march | Steal one's thunder | Sticky wicket | Stiff upper lip | Stiffen the sinews | Stone the crows | Stone's throw | Stony-hearted | Stool pigeon | Straight as a die | Straight from the horse's mouth | Strain at the leash | Stranger danger | Stuff and nonsense | Stump up | Such is life | Surf and turf | Surfing the Net/surfing the Internet/surfing the Web | Survival of the fittest | Suspension of disbelief | Swan song | Sweet Fanny Adams
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Tail wagging the dog - The | Take a back seat | Take down a peg or two | Take potluck | Take the bit between your teeth | Take the cake | Take the Mickey | Take umbrage | Take with a grain of salt | Taken aback | Talk of the Devil | Talk to the hand | Talk through one's hat | Tanstaafl - (there's no such thing as a free lunch) | Tea leaf | Technicolor yawn | Teflon president | Tell it to the marines | Test your mettle - see show your mettle | That's all folks! | That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind | The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind | The back of beyond | The balance of power | The balance of trade | The bee's knees | The best laid schemes of mice and men | The Big Apple | The Big Easy | The bitter end | The blind leading the blind | The bread of life | The buck stops here | The call of the wild | The camera cannot lie | The collywobbles | The course of true love never did run smooth | The crack of doom | The Crapper | The customer is always right | The cut of your jib | The Devil Incarnate | The Devil take the hindmost | The Devil to pay | The die has been cast | The early bird catches the worm | The elephant in the room | The exception which proves the rule | The face that launched a thousand ships | The fat of the land | The female of the species is more deadly then the male | The floozie in the jacuzzi | The fly in the ointment | The full monty | The game is afoot | The game is up | The great unwashed | The hairy eyeball | The heebie-jeebies | The last straw | The living daylights | The love that dare not speak its name | The moving finger writes | The mutt's nuts | The pen is mightier than the sword | The pot calling the kettle black | The powers that be | The proof of the pudding is in the eating | The road less travelled | The seven-year itch | The shot heard 'round the world | The sky's the limit | The tail wagging the dog | The third degree | The triumph of hope over experience | The whole kit and caboodle | The whole nine yards | The whole shebang | The writing is on the wall | The year dot | The Yellow Peril | There are three kinds of lies... | There is no alternative | There's an R in the month | There's no such thing as a free lunch (Tanstaafl) | Thing of beauty is a joy forever - A | Things that go bump in the night | Thinking cap | Third degree - The | Third time lucky | Thorn in the flesh | Thou shalt not kill | Though this be madness, yet there is method in it | Three score and ten | Three sheets to the wind | Three strikes and you are out | Throw in the towel | Thumbs up | Thus far into the bowels of the land | Ticked off | Tickle the ivories | Tickled pink | Tie the knot | Till the cows come home | Time and tide wait for no man | Tinker's dam | Tilting at windmills | Titfer | Tits up | To a T | To be or not to be, that is the question | To boldly go where no man has gone before | To boot | To cast the first stone | To gild refined gold, to paint the lily | To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub | To the manner born | To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive | Toe the line | Toe-curling | Tomorrow is another day | Tongue in cheek | Too much of a good thing | Top dog | Top notch | Touchy-feely | Tout de suite | Tower of strength | Train surfing | Trick or treat | Trip the light fantastic | Trouble and strife | True blue | Truth will out | Tuckered out | Turn a blind eye | Turn the tables | Turn up trumps | Twelve good men and true | Twenty three skidoo | Twenty four seven | Two cents worth | Two peas in a pod
(E?)(L?) http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/uv.html
underway | Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown | (The great) unwashed | (The) unkindest cut of all | Up a blind alley | Up a gum tree | Up the apples and pears | Up the duff | Up to snuff | Upset the apple-cart | Urban myth | Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut | Van surfing | Vanish into thin air | Veg out | Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things | Vice versa | Vicious circle | Vis-a-vis | Vorsprung Durch Technik
(E?)(L?) http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/w.html
Walk the plank | Walter Scott (phrases coined by) | Warts and all | We are a grandmother | We are not amused | We few, we happy few, we band of brothers | We have seen better days | We know where you live | Wear the trousers | Wear your heart on your sleeve | Weasel words | Wee-wee | Well heeled | Well read | Wet behind the ears | What a piece of work is man | What are you like? | What God has joined together let no man put asunder | What part of no don't you understand? | What you see is what you get - wysiwyg | What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet | What's not to like? | What's up Doc? | When it comes to the crunch | When the shit hits the fan | Where there's muck there's brass | Whet your appetite | While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil! | Whistle and flute | White as snow | White bread | Whipping boy | White elephant | Whole kit and caboodle - The | Whole nine yards - The | Whole shebang - The | Wide berth - Keep a | Wild and woolly | Wild goose chase | Willy nilly | Win hands down | Win one for the Gipper | (On a) wing and a prayer | Wing it | Wish you were here | Woe is me | Wolf in sheep's clothing | Woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle - A | Women and children first | Word association football | Word for word | Word in your shell-like - A | Words ending in gry | Writing is on the wall - The
(E?)(L?) http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/xyz.html
Yada yada | Year dot - The | Yellow-belly | Yellow Peril | You are what you eat | You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink | You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think | You can't get blood out of a stone | You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards | You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent | Your money or your life | Your name is mud | You've never had it so good | Zero tolerance | Zig-zag
THE CLINK | BLACK MARKET | SON OF A GUN | PATENT LEATHER | DONE TO A TURN | BEAT AROUND THE BUSH | CUT THROUGH THE RED TAPE | MINDING YOUR Ps & Qs | GETTING TANKED | PITCHER | GETTING BOMBED | WET YOUR WHISTLE | TUMBLER & TIPSY | SAVED BY THE BELL | THRESHOLD | CHEW THE FAT | GETTING THE SHORT END OF THE STICK | BURNING THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS | NOT FIT TO HOLD A CANDLE TO | GETTING THE BUM'S RUSH | GIVING SOMEONE THE COLD SHOULDER | GETTING A SQUARE MEAL | FROG IN YOUR THROAT | UPPER CRUST | EATING HUMBLE PIE | TURN THE TABLES | CLEAN YOUR PLATE BEFORE YOU HAVE DESSERT | ROOM & BOARD | RULE OF THUMB | GETTING YOUR GOAT | SAVING FACE OR LOSING FACE | MIND YOUR OWN BEESWAX | STONE COLD | BABY'S HIGH CHAIR with holes in the seat (a.k.a. "drainage chair") | SPRING CLEANING | BON(e)FIRE | SLEEP TIGHT | GET OUT OF BED ON THE WRONG SIDE | TIE THE KNOT | HONEYMOON | REASON FOR CANOPY BEDS
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signonsandiego - How strong is your knowledge of word origins?
Wenn wir heute sagen "Der Rest ist Schweigen" bzw. "The rest is silence", dann drücken wir so auch unsere Ratlosigkeit aus bzw. unser Unvermögen zu einer schwierigen Sache etwas zu sagen oder zu tun.
(E?)(L?) http://pie.usna.edu/
(E?)(L?) http://www.hti.umich.edu/micase/
(E?)(L?) http://americannationalcorpus.org/
(E?)(L?) http://kwicfinder.com/BNC/
While still under development, PIE already offers much to both linguists and students, and additional features will increase its scope in the future.
PIE incorporates a database of all 1-6-grams (phrases 1-6 "words" long) with part-of-speech (POS) codes occurring three or more times in the 100-million-word British National Corpus (BNC). One can explore English phraseology either through lists of forms and their frequencies or by searching for specific forms or collocations, e.g. 2-grams of the pattern "ADJ work", to find the most frequent adjectives describing work.
PIE also offers a phrase pattern discovery tool, "phrase-frames": sets of variants of an n-gram identical except for one word (wildcard symbol *). The most frequent and productive 4-frame is "the * of the", with variants such "as the end of the", "the rest of the", "the top of the", "the nature of the".
Over the next year PIE will add:
Click on an n-gram in the query results to see concordances from the BNC
POS-grams and POS-frames for studying the relative productivity of phrase structures
Filtering by text type (domain, genre, target audience) for contrastive studies
Query by regular expression (currently only wildcards are supported)
In addition, when POS-tagging of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) is complete, a similar database will be created with those data. Finally, when a substantial portion of the American National Corpus (ANC) has been released, a third parallel database will be built. Together these databases will permit comparative studies of phraseology in the principal variants of English.
Please note:
"Unfiltered" queries which match very large datasets can take several minutes to complete. Please be patient; read the tutorials and FAQ to focus your queries.
Users who cannot access the above site may use http://kwicfinder.com/BNC/ (please let me know so we can investigate)
Acknowledgements
Above all I am grateful to Michael Stubbs of the University of Trier for detailed suggestions and ongoing discussions that led to the creation and refinement of this site; even the "easy as pie" to remember acronym goes back to him. His research assistants contributed as well: Isabel Barth implemented the original phrase-frame generator and Katrin Ungeheuer offered valuable comments on organization and user-interface for query by text-type. Finally Lou Burnard of the BNC Consortium and David Lee of MICASE granted essential permissions and provided useful feedback on the site.
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Bücher zur Kategorie:
Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology
UK Vereinigtes Königreich (Großbritannien u. Nordirland), Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Zitate, Citations, Quotations, Redewendungen, Expressions, Phrases
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In der Kürze liegt die Würze! Sprichwörter, richtig eingesetzt, helfen, eine Aussage treffend und elegant zu bekräftigen. - Auf ein Sprichwort!- versammelt über dreihundert der gebräuchlichsten Sprichwörter mit ihren Entsprechungen in Englisch und Französisch. Oft werden in den verschiedenen Sprachen die gleichen Gedanken mit völlig unterschiedlichen Wörtern und Bildern ausgedrückt - ein besonderer Reiz für jeden, der in Fremdsprachen nicht nur ein Vehikel zur nüchternen Verständigung sieht.
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The Cobuild Series from the Bank of English
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Mit ca. 4.400 Idioms und über 8.500 Beispielen aus der "Bank of English". Neben den Erläuterungen zu den einzelnen Einträgen und Erklärungen der Hintergründe der Idioms sowie den Hinweisen auf Sprechabsichten finden Sie zusätzlich Angaben zur Häufigkeit der verwendeten Idioms.
Gulland, Daphne M.
Langenscheidts Bildliche Redewendungen
Kurzbeschreibung
Bildliche Vergleiche, nach Sachgebieten geordnet
Übersetzungen und Andwendungsbeispiele aus Zeitungen und Erzählliteratur erleichtern das Lernen
Witzige Illustrationen helfen beim Einprägen der englischen Wendungen
Extra: Alphabetisches Register ermöglicht schnelles Nachschlagen.
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Hawker, Sara - The Real McCoy - The True Stories Behind Our Everyday Phrases
mad as a hatter, Mad Hatter
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English is incredibly rich in colourful phrases and expressions. But, why do we say "mad as a hatter", "know your onions", and "put on the Ritz"? This entertaining book elucidates the question of why we say the things we say. Indeed, many of the expressions we use in daily conversation have interesting and unexpected origins.
Well into the 19th century "hatters" - people employed making hats - were literally sent "mad" by the mercury used in the production process, hence the "Mad Hatter" in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", and hence the phrase ("mad as a hatter") we still use today.
From "black sheep" to "chancing your arm", "The Real McCoy" gives the fascinating stories behind hundreds of the most interesting idioms in English. Each phrase has been thoroughly researched to uncover its origins and the way it has been used in the past. The book is written in a friendly and approachable style, and includes additional information in ten double-page panels focusing on idioms linked by a common theme, such as phrases coined by Shakespeare, nautical phrases, or phrases with a Biblical origin. The book contains specially commissioned cartoons to illustrate the idioms, and, coupled with the fresh, contemporary design, they make this book a delight to browse. "The Real McCoy" is the perfect gift for everyone interested in the quirky side of the English language.
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Langenscheidts 1000 englische Redensarten
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Redewendungen verleihen einer Unterhaltung Lebendigkeit. Der Titel "1000 englische Redensarten" von Langenscheidt enthält viele idiomatische Wendungen und moderne Satzbeispiele mit Angabe der jeweiligen Sprachebene (idiom, slang oder colloquial). Die Redensarten sind nach Hauptbegriffen alphabetisch geordnet. Im Anhang befindet sich ein Verzeichnis sämtlicher Schlüsselwörter, um das Auffinden der Redewendungen zu erleichtern.
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions
Amazon.com
New Yorker founding editor Harold Ross, according to this book's preface, is said to have asked writer James Thurber once, with bewilderment, "Is Moby Dick the man or the whale?" Well, even Homer nods (Horace). But, Harold! Thou shouldst be living at this hour (Wordsworth). Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions is a Big Rock Candy Mountain (American folk song) for anyone who feels amid the alien corn (Keats) when it comes to understanding allusions everyone else seems to grok (Heinlein). Thanks to the blood, sweat, and tears (Churchill) of authors Elizabeth Webber and Mike Feinsilber--compiling this allusional Rosetta stone must have taken a Herculean, nay Brobdingnagian (Swift) effort--we can come in from the cold (popularized by le Carré) of the dark night of the soul (St. John of the Cross) and dine out on (G. Gordon Liddy and others) these allusions for years to come.
Jane Steinberg
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