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There are at least 150 recorded versions of the song. [6] The inversion of the phrase, as "A hard man is good to find", is generally attributed, though with some uncertainty, to Mae West, or possibly to Sophie Tucker. [3] [7] The song's title was used as the title of a 1953 short story by Flannery O'Connor.
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:
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).
The fixed words of this idiom (in bold) do not form a constituent in any theory's analysis of syntactic structure because the object of the preposition (here this situation) is not part of the idiom (but rather it is an argument of the idiom). One can know that it is not part of the idiom because it is variable; for example, How do we get to ...
Aug. 23—When I was in high school, the rock band Great White achieved a gold-certified single with its 1989 song "Once Bitten, Twice Shy." At least, the teenaged me thought it was a Great White ...
A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis in 1956. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays come together" [6] "If the sky falls, we shall catch larks" means that it is pointless to worry about things that will never happen. [7]
The song was released as the album's lead single but failed to chart. [3] Bob Welch , who was the band's guitarist during the recording of Heroes Are Hard to Find , said in a 1999 Q&A that he was surprised that the title track did not achieve commercial success, a sentiment that he held about McVie's other songs on the album.
“Taylor and Joe are in totally different places in their lives right now,” the insider said. “It was more of Taylor’s decision to break up, but both of them realized that they weren’t ...