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The Simpson family holds a trial to determine Bart's guilt. Bart doubts that Homer never kissed a girl as a ten-year-old, but Marge states that Homer's first kiss was with her in high school. Homer confesses that his first kiss was with another girl. Homer recalls that when he was Bart's age, he went to a camp for underprivileged boys.
One man's trash is another man's treasure; One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb; One might as well throw water into the sea as to do a kindness to rogues; One law for the rich and another for the poor; Opportunity does not knock until you build a door; One swallow does not make a summer; One who believes in Sword, dies by the Sword ...
There’s another way to tell the story of how John and Julie fell in love, one that brings to the fore the awesome workings of destiny. Bonnie, 49, told me that she and her husband Brian, “definitely a disaster couple,” were going to end their union, but a year of biweekly counseling in the Gottman Method “completely turned things around.”
This is a list of catchphrases found in American and British english language television and film, where a catchphrase is a short phrase or expression that has gained usage beyond its initial scope.
One thousand: Ten hundred 1K 1004: One thousand (and) four: Ten oh-four 1010: Ten ten: One thousand (and) ten 1050: Ten fifty: One thousand (and) fifty 1225: Twelve twenty-five: One-two-two-five One thousand, two hundred (and) twenty-five Twelve-two-five 1900: Nineteen hundred: One thousand, nine hundred Nineteen aught 1901: Nineteen oh-one ...
Conversely, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean generally do not have native words for powers of one thousand: what is called "one million" in English is "100 萬" (100 myriad) in the Sinosphere, and "one billion" in English is "十億" (ten myllion) or "十萬萬" (ten myriad myriad) in the Sinosphere.
Capital One recommends using the format “One thousand, five hundred and 00/100” for writing out $1,500. That would make $1,200 look like “One thousand, two hundred and 00/100.”
One of the earliest examples of this is The Sand Reckoner, in which Archimedes gave a system for naming large numbers. To do this, he called the numbers up to a myriad myriad (10 8) "first numbers" and called 10 8 itself the "unit of the second numbers".