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You can have too much of a good thing; You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink; You can never/never can tell; You cannot always get what you want; You cannot burn a candle at both ends. You cannot have your cake and eat it too; You cannot get blood out of a stone; You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear
A blood substitute (also called artificial blood or blood surrogate) is a substance used to mimic and fulfill some functions of biological blood. It aims to provide an alternative to blood transfusion , which is transferring blood or blood-based products from one person into another.
[77] [110] They say their principle of abstaining from blood as a display of respect is demonstrated by the fact that members are allowed to eat meat that still contains some blood. As soon as blood is drained from an animal, the respect has been shown to God, and then a person can eat the meat even though it may contain a small amount of blood ...
Common methods of forming a minced oath are rhyme and alliteration.Thus the word bloody can become blooming, or ruddy. [3] Alliterative minced oaths such as darn for damn allow a speaker to begin to say the prohibited word and then change to a more acceptable expression. [4]
It is uncommon to acknowledge an adult sneezing, and it is customary not to say anything at all. Kashubian: Na zdar or na zdrowié "Health" Dzãkujã "Thank you" Prost: From Latin, prōsit, meaning "may it be good" Kazakh [7] Сау болыңыз (Saw Bolıñız) (formal), Сау бол (Saw Bol) (informal) "Be healthy." Widespread in cities.
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An alternative of 'turn one's toes up to the daisies' (see 'push up daisies' above.) Unalive (also un-alive) To die, or to kill Euphemistic slang A euphemism that developed in slang on social media, particularly TikTok, to avoid censorship of the words "kill" and "die." Unsubscribe from life To die Euphemistic: 21st century slang Up and die
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 ...