enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Mind your Ps and Qs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_your_Ps_and_Qs

    Other origin stories, some considered "fanciful", [3] could come from French instructions to mind one's pieds (feet) and queues (wigs) while dancing. However, there is no French translation for this expression. [6] Another is with regard to 18th century sailors, who were reminded to pay attention to their peas (pea coat) and queues (pony tail). [6]

  3. Walla - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walla

    In American radio, film, television, and video games, walla is a sound effect imitating the murmur of a crowd in the background. [1] A group of actors brought together in the post-production stage of film production to create this murmur is known as a walla group.

  4. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_idioms

    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).

  5. How did a carrot logo become shorthand for the future of ...

    www.aol.com/news/did-carrot-logo-become...

    Carrots would give all of them their names — Carrots, Peas, Veggies — not because of an obsession with produce but an awareness of how people remembered things. He wanted names that were ...

  6. Idiom - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom

    An idiom is a phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning, rather than making any literal sense. Categorized as formulaic language , an idiomatic expression's meaning is different from the literal meanings of each word inside it. [ 1 ]

  7. Scientists explore how to improve crop yields - on Mars - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/scientists-explore-improve-crop...

    The tall tomato and pea plants did out-compete the carrot by taking light from it," Wamelink said. Overall, the tomatoes, peas and carrots grew well, though not as well as in Earth soil in the ...

  8. 24 Discontinued '70s and '80s Foods That We'll Never ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/finance/24-discontinued-70s-80s...

    3. Keebler Fudge Magic Middles. Neither the chocolate fudge cream inside a shortbread cookie nor versions with peanut butter or chocolate chip crusts survived.

  9. Fried rice - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_rice

    An estimated 30,000 people of Chinese origin live in the Dominican Republic. Migration from China began in the second half of the 19th century. Dominican fried rice is known as chofán. The dish is made with leftover rice, celery, garlic, bell peppers, red onion, carrots, peas, and soy sauce sautéed in vegetable oil.