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One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people. Turkish Proverb [5] One year's seeding makes seven years weeding; Only fools and horses work; Open confession is good for the soul. Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door; Other times other manners. Out of sight, out of mind
You’ll want to refer to these the next time you feel under the weather.
"When Hell freezes over" [2] and "on a cold day in Hell" [3] are based on the understanding that Hell is eternally an extremely hot place. The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4] A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays come ...
Crosses the rivers Styx and Acheron which divide the world of the living from the world of the dead Check out To die Euphemism Choir Invisible To die Humorous: British. "Join the choir invisible" Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch. Come to a sticky end [1] To die in a way that is considered unpleasant Humorous: British. Also 'to meet a sticky end'.
Cold and flu season always comes around when the weather starts to change. But does cold, wet weather actually make you sick?Not really, experts say. But cooler temperatures and dry winter air can ...
Sometimes what you say to yourself matters most of all.
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
Going back to the time of Hippocrates, many people thought that fever was a disease in and of itself. [1] His treatment of patients with fever was said to be starvation. [2] The Greek physician has been credited with coming up with the idea, "Feed a cold and starve a fever". [3] Hippocrates thought that starving the fever was a way to starve ...