Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The adage was a submission credited in print to Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pennsylvania, in a compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! (1980). [1] A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's novella Logic of Empire (1941). [2]
Godwin's law, an adage in Internet culture: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." Coined by Mike Godwin in 1990. Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality: the death rate is the sum of an age-independent component and an age-dependent component.
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.
Crossword. Solve puzzle clues across and down to fill the numbered rows and columns of the grid with words and phrases. By Masque Publishing. Advertisement. Advertisement. all. board. card.
An adage is a short, but memorable saying, which holds some important fact of experience that is considered true by many people, or it has gained some credibility through its long use. Contents Top
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
The Mini Crossword was introduced in 2014 and the digital version of Spelling Bee followed in 2018. The outlet then made a huge splash when it acquired Wordle in 2022, while Connections joined the ...
Wise only in appearance. From Erasmus's collection of Adages. Beata Virgo Maria (BVM) Blessed Virgin Mary: A common name in the Roman Catholic Church for Mary, the mother of Jesus. The genitive, Beatae Mariae Virginis (BMV), occurs often as well, appearing with such words as horae (hours), litaniae and officium (office). beatae memoriae