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Like many nursery rhymes, "Jack Sprat" may have originated as a satire on a public figure. History writer Linda Alchin suggests that Jack was King Charles I, who was left "lean" when parliament denied him taxation, but with his queen Henrietta Maria he was free to "lick the platter clean" after he dissolved parliament—Charles was a notably short man.
1. Coxcomb. A “coxcomb” is a vain, conceited man who spends more time admiring his own reflection in the mirror than engaging in an honest day’s work.
“If a kid wants to use the word ‘fat’ as a ... How to respond to a kid who uses “fat” as an insult. It’s understandable that parents may be quick to chastise kids who say “fat” to ...
19th-century author Charles Mackay proposed in The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe (1877) that the seemingly meaningless string of syllables "Fa fe fi fo fum" is actually a coherent phrase of ancient Gaelic, and that the complete quatrain covertly expresses the Celts' cultural detestation of the invading Angles and Saxons:
In 2017, Manzoor-Khan performed at The Last Word Festival in London's Roundhouse Poetry Slam, winning the competition with her poem "This is not a Humanising Poem". Her performance of the poem, which spoke about how the world values Muslims based on how 'good' or 'bad' they are considered to be, [23] went viral after being posted on the Roundhouse's Facebook page.
Brianna Campos was 8 years old when she was body-shamed by a pediatrician at her annual wellness visit. “She said to me, ‘You are too fat. You need to lose weight, you need to exercise, you ...
This Is Just to Say (Wall poem in The Hague) "This Is Just to Say" (1934) is an imagist poem [1] by William Carlos Williams. The three-versed, 28-word poem is an apology about eating the reader's plums. The poem was written as if it were a note left on a kitchen table. It has been widely pastiched. [2] [3]
This ‘big back’ business is fatphobia. My 6 year old coming home and asking if she has ‘the biggest back’ because she wanted extra crackers at snack time is NOT cute or funny.