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Frigophobia is a phobia pertaining to the pathological concern of hypothermia.Frigophobia is a psychiatric condition that appears mainly in the Chinese culture. Sufferers of this affliction compulsively bundle up in heavy clothes and blankets, regardless of the ambient air temperature.
The apple does not fall/never falls far from the tree; The best condiments are authentic flavors; The best defense is a good offense; The best-laid schemes of mice and men often go awry; The best things in life are free; The bigger they are, the harder they fall; The boy is father to the man; The bread never falls but on its buttered side
"When Hell freezes over" [2] and "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 in 1956. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays ...
The history of kiasi can be traced back to the Chinese idiom "Greedy for life, afraid of death" (Chinese: 貪生怕死; pinyin: tān shēng pà sǐ), which describes a person's extreme fear of death, and may drive a person to lose his sense of justice and righteousness. The idiom was originally applied to cowardly soldiers on the battlefield.
A European hedgehog. The hedgehog's dilemma, or sometimes the porcupine dilemma, is a metaphor about the challenges of human intimacy.It describes a situation in which a group of hedgehogs seek to move close to one another to share heat during cold weather.
After all, it's in the suburbs of "Beau Is Afraid" — a place of self-medication and post-traumatic stress disorder, suicide and surveillance, war and its aftermath — that the world of the film ...
Sleeping child – falling is a common occurrence in dreams. According to Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, falling dreams fall under the category of "typical dreams", meaning the "dreams which almost everyone has dreamt alike and which we are accustomed to assume must have the same meaning for everyone". [18]
"American Gladiators gave them that stage to go after their athletic aspirations, be on TV and win $25,000," he says. "I think this was really this first bit of where American culture changed, not ...