And then there are those who just use phrasebooks—they do not actually understand the words they’re saying, but the phrase solves their questions.” After leaving the LCP, Brody started to design sleeves for small independent record companies. Working on low budgets, he had to push his ...
And then there are those who just use phrasebooks—they do not actually understand the words they’re saying, but the phrase solves their questions.” After leaving the LCP, Brody started to design sleeves for small independent record companies. Working on low budgets, he had to push his ...
3. The Best-case Scenario: I phrase this timidly as the current state of the Republican Party and its bargaining position is still a bad one. Undercut in the “fiscal cliff” deal by minority leader Senator McConnell, Vice-President Biden and the Senate Democrats, Speaker Boehner had no rea...
10. I don't think slang a phrase added to an ironical statement: you're the paragon of virtue, I don't think. 11. think again to reconsider one's decision, opinion, etc 12. think better of a. to change one's mind about (a course of action, decision, etc) b. to have a ...
ve probably heard that some people are really upset about acomment by Richard M. Stallmanabout Steve Jobs’ death. RMS wrote “Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died” and continued with a requoted phrase said ...
(Kind of like substituting margarine for butter after your double-bypass.) There was a statement made a few years ago that you can’t be healthy if you’re fat (sorry: I have no clue as to who coined this phrase – suggestions welcome). And looking purely at statistical records (...
11. His Majesty Sir Theo of Agnew’s usage of the vile phrase ‘cunning ways’ in reference to the Machiavellian machinations of Dame Rachel. (For sauce, see the Guardian article in no.1.) (Apologies, I meant source. Of course.) ...
open-minded enough to not only see what the U.S. does well, but what other countries, values and traditions sometimes do even better. Most of you, I’m sure, remember John F. Kennedy’s inaugural in which he declared “Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather ask what...
A full discussion of all the meaning of this phrase, meaning “The Sword that Kills, the Sword that gives Life,” is beyond the scope of this short blog essay. However, I am led to understand that one of the meaning is that the sword symbolizes one’s training in martial arts. Like...
Catchy Phrase I wasn’t fond of catch phrases or slogans before cancer, but after I was done with treatment (in my white-hot angry phase), I came to HATE them. Oh no, is that a cancer lesson? (Yes, that’s sarcasm.) I’ve eased up a little bit in my loathing of catch phrases...