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If you have never seen the bottom of the tree, you cannot know how tall it stands; If you must dance with the Devil, you might as well know his favorite song (H. Anthony Ribadeneira) If you've got it, flaunt it; Ignorance is bliss; Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; In for a penny, in for a pound
Lodgings to Let, an 1814 engraving featuring a double entendre. He: "My sweet honey, I hope you are to be let with the Lodgins!" She: "No, sir, I am to be let alone".. A double entendre [note 1] (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other often conveys a message that ...
In literary criticism and rhetoric, a tautology is a statement that repeats an idea using near-synonymous morphemes, words or phrases, effectively "saying the same thing twice". [1] [2] Tautology and pleonasm are not consistently differentiated in literature. [3] Like pleonasm, tautology is often considered a fault of style when unintentional.
"Never Be the Same" is the title of the third single by singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, released from his debut Grammy Award-winning album Christopher Cross. It was the singer's third consecutive single to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at No. 15 in 1980. [ 3 ]
(The term "quote generator" can also be used for software that randomly selects real quotations.) Further to its esoteric interest, a discussion of parody generation as a useful technique for measuring the success of grammatical inferencing systems is included, along with suggestions for its practical application in areas of language modeling ...
The City So Nice They Named It Twice – a reference to "New York, New York" as both the city and state, spoken by Jon Hendricks in 1959 on a jazz cover of Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers' song "Manhattan" on George Russell's album New York, N.Y., [16] and popularized by New York-based late night talk show host David Letterman, who also used ...
Choose from the best quotes from "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation." Find funny lines from movie characters including Clark Griswold and Cousin Eddie. 52 'Christmas Vacation' quotes that are ...
The song has been recorded but few times. In 1930, English comedian Billy Bennett made a 10" single , Columbia DB 164 , with the words credited to Bert Lee and R. P. Weston and the music to Lee. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In 1962, Derek Lamb , best known as a British animation filmmaker and producer, included it on an album itself called She Was Poor but She ...