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One might also say that an unlikely event will happen "on the 32nd of the month". To express indefinite postponement, you might say that an event is deferred "to the [Greek] Calends" (see Latin). A less common expression used to point out someone's wishful thinking is Αν η γιαγιά μου είχε καρούλια, θα ήταν ...
Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves; Talk is cheap; Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear; Talk of Angels, and hear the flutter of their wings; Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are [26] Tell the truth and shame the Devil (Shakespeare, Henry IV) The age of miracles is past
Take a dirt nap [18] To die and be buried Slang: Take a last bow [5] To die Slang Take one's own life To commit suicide Euphemism: Take/took the easy way out [19] To commit suicide Euphemism: Based on the original meaning of the phrase of taking the path of least resistance. Take the last train to glory [2] To die Euphemism: An idiom Christian ...
Correlative-based fallacies. Suppressed correlative – a correlative is redefined so that one alternative is made impossible (e.g., "I'm not fat because I'm thinner than John."). [18] Definist fallacy – defining a term used in an argument in a biased manner (e.g., using "loaded terms"). The person making the argument expects that the ...
Maxim – "A saying drawn from life, which shows concisely either what happens or ought to happen in life, for example: 'Every beginning is difficult.'" ( Rhetorica ad Herennium ) Meiosis – a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is.
According to Kent Bach, "almost any speech act is really the performance of several acts at once, distinguished by different aspects of the speaker's intention: there is the act of saying something, what one does in saying it, such as requesting or promising, and how one is trying to affect one's audience". [2]
According to Austin, a "performative utterance" refers to the action of "performing" or "doing" a certain action; for example, when people say "I promise to do so and so", they are generating the action of making a promise by so speaking. If this is accomplished without any flaw (in this case: if the promise is fulfilled), the performative ...
Fish or cut bait is a colloquial expression, dating back to the 19th-century United States, that refers to division of complementary tasks. It has multiple uses that have evolved over time, but all generally convey that an important decision must be made, often immediately, and failing to make a choice is to make oneself a useless obstruction.