The Origin Of “Knock It Out Of The Park” Baseball is likely where the idiom “knock it out of the park” comes from. I will briefly talk about basic parts of this sport in an attempt to explain how the term originated there: In baseball, a ball is pitched to a batter whose goal ...
but a complicated future for them was on the horizon. Sammy Hagar, of the band Montrose, ended up joining after Roth left the band in 1985, and while their vocal styles were incredibly different, the band managed to maintain their following. ...
By the early 20th century, the phrase “as high as a kite” began to be associated with intoxication. The term “high” had been used to denote inebriation since the early 1600s. For example, Thomas May’s 1627 translation of Lucan’sPharsaliaincludes: “He’s awash with rich dishes, h...
In my case it’s fear of long term care fees. The current average is c. £1000 per week and £1500 per week for a good kennel. So £80k per annum; one needs a good stash for that kind of expenditure short of a DIY pack from EXIT. Apologies for being so long winded. Enjoy...
Carcinogenesis is widely thought to originate from somatic mutations and an inhibition of growth suppressors, followed by cell proliferation, tissue invasion, and risk of metastasis. Fewer than 10% of all cancers are hereditary; the ratio in gastric (1%)
Meaning to give away a secret or to confess, the term spill the beans derives from the electing of a council member in ancient Greece. Each council member would vote with either a white bean (yes) or a brown bean (no), and these would secretly be put into a jar, and no one would...
Thus a more accurate translation of Tenkaichi Budokai (天下一武道会) is “The Number One Under Heaven Martial Arts Gathering.” I feel that saying “World Martial Arts Tournament” is a disservice to the original meaning of the term, because even if it does describe the external event, it ...
Thus, it is generally believed that synaptic activity regulates gene expression that is required for long-term changes of membrane excitability and the formation of long-term memory; the contribution of long-distance NMDAR signaling to the nucleus is essential in this regard (Alberini, 2009; ...
In fact, in the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”. Not only that, but the sport being referred to as “Soccer” preceded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word “Football” ...
These BET bromodomain-targeting compounds, although effective and highly selective for BET family proteins, nevertheless pose potential issues for long-term treatments that inevitably elicit side effects because of inhibition of normal gene function critical for cell growth and differentiation. In this ...