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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.
"Hail fellow well met" is an English idiom used when referring to a person whose behavior is hearty, friendly, and congenial. It is typically used to imply the behaviour is excessive or insincere. It is typically used to imply the behaviour is excessive or insincere.
The original meaning was similar to "the game is afoot", but its modern meaning, like that of the phrase "crossing the Rubicon", denotes passing the point of no return on a momentous decision and entering into a risky endeavor where the outcome is left to chance. alenda lux ubi orta libertas: Let light be nourished where liberty has arisen
So, you go, like, ‘Okay, he means well.’ And once the audience goes, like, ‘He means well,’ then you're, like, ‘We'll follow him.’ And the whole show turned around and obviously became ...
Though he means well, Michael doesn’t take anything seriously and frequently offends his staff, which includes sales rep Jim Halpert (John Krasinski), secretary Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer), and ...
wherefore he broke the close: An action of trespass; thus called, by reason the writ demands the person summoned to answer to wherefore he broke the close (quare clausum fregit), i.e. why he committed such a trespass. quater in die (qid) four times a day: medical shorthand: quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius
Suffer fools gladly is a phrase in contemporary use, first coined by Saint Paul in his second letter to the Church at Corinth ().The full verse of the original source of the idiom, 2 Corinthians 11:19 (), reads "For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise."
The term ne'er-do-well was used in the nineteenth-century Australasian colonies to denote young British and Irish men seen as undesirable. These men were typically thought to be the younger sons of wealthy families who had somehow failed to fulfil their potential, so they were sent to the colonies to 'improve' themselves.