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The reddit poster said they were looking at the problem customer when it happened and saw the insult land with devastating affect. #11 My sister delivered an insult in the form of advice when I ...
Native wit—meaning the wits with which one is born—is closely synonymous with common sense. To live by one's wits is to be an opportunist, but not always of the scrupulous kind. To have one's wits about one is to be alert and capable of quick reasoning. To be at the end of one's wits ("I'm at wits' end") is to be immensely frustrated.
Snowflake is a derogatory slang term for a person, implying that they have an inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are overly emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions.
Thomas Carlyle despised it: "Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it". [20] Fyodor Dostoevsky , on the other hand, recognized in it a cry of pain: Sarcasm, he said, was "usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is ...
If you don't have something nice to say, don't say it at all ... unless you're a president with an amazing ability to hide an insult in eloquent language. When Lincoln got mad, he didn't stoop so ...
British humour carries a strong element of satire aimed at the absurdity of everyday life. Common themes include sarcasm, tongue-in-cheek, banter, insults, self-deprecation, taboo subjects, puns, innuendo, wit, and the British class system. [1] These are often accompanied by a deadpan delivery which is present throughout the British sense of ...
You can have too much of a good thing; You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink; You can never/never can tell; You cannot always get what you want; You cannot burn a candle at both ends. You cannot have your cake and eat it too; You cannot get blood out of a stone; You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear
“The Short King: Because sometimes you don’t need a large or even a medium, you just need a Short King,” the post read. The message is clear: It’s short kings’ time to shine.