Those old phrases....

[LostArt]

......I really like them. We all say them one time or another.

I got tickled today hearing a teacher tell her story of her 8th grade students that couldn't seem to hush and listen. She shook her head and said to her class, "Loose lips sink ships."

She had their attention because some students didn't know the meaning. So she says to one of the female students that was doing most of the talking that "her lips were sinking"----she motioned her arms around the room---"this ship" Then she went on to say during WW2 is when the term was phrased. Which ended up with a history lesson.

Since we were in the teacher's lounge at lunch, we got off talking about "kids these days" and I laughed saying that now I'm hearing my children repeat me. Then it went on to talking about "people these days" and how they only think of "me,me,me" and we want to get on to the students in their "me" world when even socially and politically, we are all about "ME"

Someone spoke up and said, "Oh but then you need to watch it. Remember the phrase, People in glass houses." Which gave a few more chuckles.

Someone else started talking about no one wanting to be accountable or even taking the consequences of their actions when they are caught in the act of wrong doing. Kinda like fidelity in politics or with celebrities.

I finally spoke up and said, "Oh yeah. You mean like wanting your cake and eat it too." More laughter.


I found all these phrases interesting. I know. It doesn't take much. :D But, I thought we would all coin a phrase and then google it to see where it originated. Oh, come on!!! It will be fun! Might even learn a few we don't even know about!

[LostArt]

By the way, this 60 yr old teacher was our DISTRICT (for our county and our school) Teacher of the Year. She is fantastic.

[LostArt]

People who live in glass houses.............

PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULDN'T THROW STONES - "Those who are vulnerable should not attack others. The proverb has been traced back to Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' (1385). George Herbert wrote in 1651: 'Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.' This saying is first cited in the United States in 'William & Mary College Quarterly' (1710). Twenty-six later Benjamin Franklin wrote, 'Don't throw stones at your neighbors', if your own windows are glass.' 'To live in a glass house' is used as a figure of speech referring to vulnerability." From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" (1996) by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).

A further counsel bear in mind:
If that thy roof be made of glass,
It shows small wit to pick up stones
To pelt the people as they pass.

Don Quixote 1605

Miguel de Cervantes 1547-1616

[LostArt]

I just realized that "some of you guys" might want the link! :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_one's_cake_and_eat_it_too


The phrase's earliest recording is from 1546 as "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?" (John Heywood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heywood)'s 'A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue')[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_one's_cake_and_eat_it_too#cite_note-OED-0) alluding to the impossibility of eating your cake and still having it afterwards; the modern version (where the clauses are reversed) is a corruption which was first signaled in 1812.

Paul Brians, Professor of English at Washington State University, points out that perhaps a more logical or easier to understand version of this saying is: “You can’t eat your cake and have it too”. Professor Brians writes that a common source of confusion about this idiom stems from the verb to have which in this case indicates that once eaten, possession of the cake is no longer possible, seeing that it is in your tummy.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_one's_cake_and_eat_it_too#cite_note-1) Alternatively, the two verbs can be understood to represent a sequence of actions, so one can indeed "have" one's cake and then "eat" it. Consequently, the literal meaning of the reversed idiom doesn't match the metaphorical meaning.

The phrase can also have specialized meaning in academic contexts; Classicist Katharina Volk of Columbia University has used the phrase to describe the development of poetic imagery in Latin didactic poetry, naming the principle behind the imagery's adoption and application the "have-one's-cake-and-eat-it-too principle".[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_one's_cake_and_eat_it_too#cite_note-2)

[LostArt]

I sure heard this alot growing up and it's probably WHY it's taking me so long to get this house the way I want it! :D We purchased it in 2002 and I still have a bedroom to paint and fix, 2 bathrooms to paint and fix, and a utility room painted and the way I want it.

So, this phrase is why it's taking me so long! :D

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_stitch_in_time_saves_nine

This year makes 8.....so does this mean I'm finished next year?????? Heh.

[thrasher]

When I was growing up this confused me because I thought they were talking about a football down which is ten yards. However I later was told the phrase is from WWI. Machine gun belts were made in 9 yard lengths, so if things were desperate someone would fire the Whole 9 yards is a continous burst. Thus Whole nine yards meant giving it everthing you had.

[electriklady]

Here's one I always liked.....

caught "between a rock and a hard place"





Browse phrases beginning with:


Meaning
In difficulty, faced with a choice between two unsatisfactory options.
Origin
US origin. The earliest known printed reference is Dialect Notes V, 1921:

"To be between a rock and a hard place, ..to be bankrupt. Common in Arizona in recent panics; sporadic in California."
http://www.phrases.org.uk/images/bisbee.jpgThe 'recent panics' referred to in that citation are undoubtedly the events surrounding the Bisbee deportations of 1917. In Bisbee, Arizona, in the early years of the 20th century, a dispute between copper mining companies and mineworkers developed. In 1917, the workers, some of whom had organized in labour unions, approached the company management with a list of demands for better pay and conditions. These were refused and subsequently many workers at the Bisbee mines were forcibly deported to New Mexico.
It's tempting to surmise, given that the mineworkers were faced with a choice between harsh and underpaid work at the rock-face on the one hand and unemployment and poverty on the other, that this is the source of the phrase.

[wtdoor67]

tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.

He's such a sex maniac he'd have sex with a snake if someone would hold it's head.

Hell no, he's such a sex maniac he'd have sex with a bush if he thought there was a snake in it. (These are usually worded different but I realize some have tender ears.)

[LostArt]

tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.

He's such a sex maniac he'd have sex with a snake if someone would hold it's head.

Hell no, he's such a sex maniac he'd have sex with a bush if he thought there was a snake in it. (These are usually worded different but I realize some have tender ears.)

And you are in the Ladies Lounge. :D

Hello! I can't believe you meandered over here in deep waters Mr. B. Heh. Glad to see you around sir!

This one seems to fit here, "Lord willing and the creek don't rise......I'll see you more Mr. B."

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lord_willing_and_the_creek_don't_rise

[Highplains Drifter]

Nothing could be Finer


Than to wake up with a High Liner!!!!!2361








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[LostArt]

Nothing could be Finer


Than to wake up with a High Liner!!!!!2361








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Is this when you coin the phrase, "One so full of himself" ???

:D