While the laundry analogy is widely accepted, alternative theories exist regarding the idiom’s origin. One such theory suggests a connection to the practice of hanging animal carcasses to dry, preserving meat for future consumption. However, this explanation lacks substantial evidence and is less com...
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Then sometime in 1960s America, this expression was ascribed to the hippies, who liked outdoor activities but also espoused a philosophy of taking life easy, not getting worked up, not struggling or fighting. These people drew an analogy from the way they kayaked and rafted on white water ...
The terms exaptation and cooption are currently used as synonyms, albeit with the former an old trait (if any) is compared with a new one, while the latter implies that both traits have to be present at the beginning, but then one of these has been later coopted to perform its current...
This organism analogy sees the different parts of society working together to form a social system in the same way that the different parts of an organism form a cohesive functioning entity. In relation to the case of Zambia, structural functionalism is relevant in understanding social change. It...
of the Einstein’s field equations of GR from known solutions. By analogy, here we are using this method to yield new solutions of MHD anti-dynamo solutions from the well-known fast dynamo Arnold solution. We shall demonstrate that distinct physical features from the Arnold solution maybe obt...
the terrorist like group called The Fishes is help with the analogy between animals. In the history of Christianity, Fishes are known to be a symbol to identify followers of the faith, and in the film, it can be debated that fishes are a symbol to show the dangers of following a strict...
“paying through the nose” could draw an analogy between paying a large sum of money and paying out an anchor’s cable or chain through the hawseholes at the bow (metaphorically the “nose”) of a ship. This perspective, however, is not widely accepted, and other explanations have been ...
The analogy he draws is with an egg that on the outside may appear fresh, but when the shell is broken – it may be rotten inside. At the beginning of the 20th-century student begin reversing the phrase and describing decent people as a ‘good egg.’ ...
Yann Martel uses the desire to believe in Richard Parker as a stand in for God, creating an analogy, that the readers and audience must make on their own. Pi desperately wants to believe in God. The whole point of the novel is to trick the reader into the question, which is the bette...