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Eating crow is of a family of idioms having to do with eating and being proven incorrect, such as to "eat dirt", to "eat one’s hat" (or shoe), or to put one's foot in their mouth; all probably originating from "to eat one's words", which first appears in print in 1571 in one of John Calvin's tracts on Psalm 62: "God eateth not his words when ...
Do not put all your eggs in one basket; Do not put the cart before the horse; Do not put too many irons in the fire; Do not put new wine into old bottles; Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today; Do not rock the boat; Do not shut/lock the stable door after the horse has bolted; Do not spend it all in one place
The ogam tract In Lebor Ogaim mentions two forms of finger spelling; cossogam ('foot-ogham') and sronogam ('nose-ogham'). Cossogam involves putting the fingers to the right or left of the shinbone for the first or second aicmi, and across it diagonally or straight for the third or fourth aicmi. One finger is used for the first letter, two for ...
[73] George Washington said, "If You Cough, Sneeze, Sigh, or Yawn, do it not Loud but Privately; and Speak not in your Yawning, but put Your handkerchief or Hand before your face and turn aside." [74] These customary beliefs persist in the modern age. One of Mason Cooley's aphorisms is "A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction."
"The report was handed in just under the wire." Or, "At five-foot-five, he was under the wire for the height requirement for enlistment." From the practice of stretching a wire over the finish line at a racetrack. AHDI dates to the first half of the 20th century; [90] OED dates the horse-racing term to 1889 and the figurative sense to 1929. [91]
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The phrase originally expressed contempt, but by 1842 had acquired its modern meaning. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Early users of the phrase include Sir Walter Scott in his 1828 The Fair Maid of Perth . The physical act of putting one's tongue into one's cheek once signified contempt . [ 4 ]
Thumbing one's nose, also known as cocking a snook, [1] is a sign of derision, disrespect, contempt, or defiance, made by putting the thumb on the nose, holding the palm open and perpendicular to the face, and wiggling the remaining fingers. [2] [3] It is used mostly by schoolchildren. It is also known as thumbing the nose, Anne's Fan or Queen ...