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You cannot get blood out of a stone; You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear; You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs; You cannot make bricks without straw; You cannot push a rope; You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds (You cannot) teach an old dog new tricks; You cannot unscramble eggs; You cannot win them all
To express indefinite postponement, you might say that an event is deferred "to the [Greek] Calends" (see Latin). A less common expression used to point out someone's wishful thinking is Αν η γιαγιά μου είχε καρούλια, θα ήταν πατίνι ("If my grandmother had wheels she would be a skateboard").
This saying the nautical equivalent of "Take the lay of the land": see how things are going, or see what people think about a proposed course of action. [citation needed] "By and large" comes from a term for sailing a ship slightly off of the wind. [5]
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When you only know half of the information, it's easy to think you're right. There may be a psychological reason why some people aren’t just wrong in an argument — they’re confidently wrong.
According to the looking-glass self, how you see yourself depends on how you think others perceive you. The term looking-glass self was created by American sociologist Charles Horton Cooley in 1902, [1] and introduced into his work Human Nature and the Social Order. It is described as our reflection of how we think we appear to others. [2]
It is applicable when a subject is emotionally charged, and the people who might have spoken up decide that it is probably best avoided. [ 13 ] The idiom is commonly used in addiction recovery terminology to describe the reluctance of friends and family of an addicted person to discuss the person's problem, thus aiding the person's denial.
The 'Inside Out' sequel introduces new teen-centric emotions to Headquarters — Anxiety, Envy, Embarrassment and Ennui. ... “And feeling like you have to put on a show so that people think you ...