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The story of "Rip Van Winkle" itself is widely thought to have been based on Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal's German folktale "Peter Klaus", [5] [10] which is a shorter story set in a German village. It tells of a goatherd named Peter Klaus who goes looking for a lost goat.
Military code word used in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states referring to the transportation of military casualties Cark-it [4] To die Informal, another version of 'croaked it'; common in UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand The guy was running, had a heart attack and carked it. Cash in one's chips [2] To die Informal, euphemistic [5]
Kelley is credited [4] with being the first to commit the term "woke" to print, in the title of a 1962 op-ed for The New York Timeson the use of African-American slang by beatniks: "If You're Woke, You Dig It". [5] [10] For Kathryn Schulz, writing in The New Yorker in 2018, Kelley is "the lost giant of American literature". [3]
Another musician told me Kim had brought her to LA to audition to replace me in The Runaways, but told her if she wanted to be in the band she had to sleep with him. Others told me similar stories. I was especially surprised by a voicemail I got from someone who had not had just known Kim, but who had been very close to him for decades.
"Woke," a term singer Erykah Badu reinvigorated in the late aughts on the track "Master Teacher," has since taken on "a life of its own," and she believes it has become a put-down for Black people.
A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition. The difference is that a proverb is a fixed expression, while a proverbial phrase permits alterations to fit the grammar of the context. [1] [2] In 1768, John Ray defined a proverbial phrase as:
In 1968, Lennon said, "It was a good piece of work between Paul and me. I had the 'I read the news today' bit, and it turned Paul on, because now and then we really turn each other on with a bit of song, and he just said 'yeah' – bang bang, like that." [9]
The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven: A True Story is a best-selling 2010 Christian book that purported to tell the story of Alex Malarkey's experiences in heaven after a traffic accident in 2004. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was published by Tyndale House Publishers , in 2010. [ 3 ]