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Better late than never; Better safe than sorry; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven (John Milton, in Paradise Lost) [8] Be yourself; Better the Devil you know (than the Devil you do not) Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness
Chronogram: a phrase or sentence in which some letters can be interpreted as numerals and rearranged to stand for a particular date; Gramogram: a word or sentence in which the names of the letters or numerals are used to represent the word; Lipogram: a writing in which certain letter is missing Univocalic: a type of poetry that uses only one vowel
The English band The Unthanks recorded a version of this song on their 2015 album Mount the Air, [16] and the song appeared in the BBC series Detectorists, and the 4th season of the HBO series True Detective. The American alternative rock band The Innocence Mission featured a song called "One for Sorrow, Two for Joy" on their 2003 album Befriended.
"Two Is Better Than One" was met with mixed reviews from music critics. A positive response came from Michael Menachem of Billboard who stated, "Martin Johnson's falsetto complements Swift's sweet tone, and producer Brian Howes builds an orchestral arrangement around their vocals that would be well-suited to a climactic movie moment."
Minogue co-wrote "Say Something" with Ash Howes, Jonathan Green, and longtime collaborator Stannard, and it was one of first tracks recorded for Disco. [5] According to Minogue, collaborative efforts for the song "dropped from the sky" after experimenting with specific beats, with Howes, Green, and Stannard providing the demo vocals and ...
The song has sold 431,000 downloads in the country as of June 2018. [35] In 2018, "Say Something" was ranked as the 85th most popular song of the year on the Billboard Hot 100. [36] In 2019, "Say Something" was certified Platinum in the UK exactly one year after its release, becoming his sixth Platinum seller in the country as a solo artist. [37]
A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).
"Hang Fire" is a song by the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from their 1981 album Tattoo You. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Hang Fire" is a fast-paced, up-tempo rock and roll track, which belies the happy beat with sharp, satirical lyrics directed squarely at England's economic decline through the 1970s.