Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Like many nursery rhymes, "Jack Sprat" may have originated as a satire on a public figure. History writer Linda Alchin suggests that Jack was King Charles I, who was left "lean" when parliament denied him taxation, but with his queen Henrietta Maria he was free to "lick the platter clean" after he dissolved parliament—Charles was a notably short man.
Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.
There’s nothing wrong with being fat; there is something wrong with making fun of people for how they look, or using words that describe bodies, like 'fat,' as insults.” How to respond to a ...
1. Coxcomb. A “coxcomb” is a vain, conceited man who spends more time admiring his own reflection in the mirror than engaging in an honest day’s work.
19th-century author Charles Mackay proposed in The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe (1877) that the seemingly meaningless string of syllables "Fa fe fi fo fum" is actually a coherent phrase of ancient Gaelic, and that the complete quatrain covertly expresses the Celts' cultural detestation of the invading Angles and Saxons:
Brianna Campos was 8 years old when she was body-shamed by a pediatrician at her annual wellness visit. “She said to me, ‘You are too fat. You need to lose weight, you need to exercise, you ...
Catullus 16 or Carmen 16 is a poem by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC).The poem, written in a hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) meter, was considered to be so sexually explicit following its rediscovery in the following centuries that a full English translation was not published until the 20th century. [1]
This Is Just to Say (Wall poem in The Hague) "This Is Just to Say" (1934) is an imagist poem [1] by William Carlos Williams. The three-versed, 28-word poem is an apology about eating the reader's plums. The poem was written as if it were a note left on a kitchen table. It has been widely pastiched. [2] [3]