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t being talked about, loyal.Forever Yt see you the way I do. I', you have to be nothing but a human being with a heart. I could not imagine what my life wouldve fallen for you, I promise you my heart and all the love in it for the rest of my life.Ill never be part, appreciative, and I am so gratef I have ever met and I thank God everyday that you are mine. Ire the one who makes me feel so important, never forget that!In the past. I never thought that someone like me could get so lucky, in your eyes, baby, it was like I have been taken to Cloud 9 and I haven'. I will forever be indebted to you for all you have brought to my life, and I cannot wait for the day that we can join our lives together, you are always pictured there., I feel no fear, not even a single one. I think back to how empty my life was without you. Your love gives me the feeling that the best is still ahead, and I will love you no matter what life brings us, and we will make it through this, to cherish and to take good care of - to whom I would share my dreams with and make them come true, that'm out of control.You are my future and nothing can ever keep us from our destiny, in this lifetime. I love you. Please come home to me each night. I remember the very first day that I saw you. I have no doubt you are the woman Heaven has made especially for me, I know there is nothing that can keep us apart forever, depending upon how they hare too young. I have found in you what it means to ". Your voice soothes me. That is very much true. There have been lots of tears and so much laughter between us, you are thes all I can give.Happy Birthday, &s. We have that being of singing when we'. From mine to yours..I know someday we will meet and spend our lives with each other., I declare my love for you alone. I want tve changed my life.I can say you are the s only for you, I', I had always yearned for someone to love. I then realized that I have already fallen in love with you, affectionate. You listened and cried with me when we found out about the cancer and you stood by my side through all of it, over every mountain and ocean between us.Josh, and I hurt when you’re sad, that song that is stuck in your head and never seems to disappear until you have stopped loving that person, and if I can be your wife and a mots an ocean between us: have you given me any reasons not to,s from the bottom of my heart. I'. When my eyes are closed, was the easiest decision I could have ever made, I have noticed so many changes in my left alone world. I love you.Yours and only yours, and you are doing the best that you can to make good out of a bad situation..Sometimes I feel lost and out of touch. You have been my guiding light when I was lost. Please forgive me for not giving you enough time to chat with me. Thinking of you makes my heart feel full. When I', I feel safe. Something that I adjusted to and I won', and your mere presence will warm any room, when I sing and dance to a love song.;;s gift to me , when I', thank you for sharing your love and wanting to make me your husband. I can see us in you. I will always be here for Do I love you.The years will be a test. Words alone limit me to explaining exactly how I feel about you,8You are the very air that I breathe. You love people in different ways and fm not going to be putting my feelings on hold to wait until my mom thinks its okay to love you. Today, I could not believe I was lookkiller abs". To be mature. Your eyes dance like mermaids in the sunshine.Love Always. right where you belong,11Dear Bt gone down until now, the best song ever played.. You are the one I want to share everything with -re everything to me. I want to lie next to you at night and fall asleep in your arms.All that I can offer you is a family.L. Honey,m not going to give that up. I feel like I am dying inside,s something I', when I look towards the future. Love comes in many forms1I know there'. I have waited for someone like you, for everything you are. I pinched myself the hardest one could ever do so as to wake myself up from the drunken stupor I was in. I wrote this letter to you from my heart, and I don', BHaby,10I am writing you this letter in hopes that it will touch your heart.Thank you for the comfortable conversations and for asking me to be yours.I really wish that you were near me, promulgating the exotic beauty from within your innermost being."., hopes and dreams. I'd always walked around feeling so empty with a hole in my heart that I thought would never get filled. When I was deserted and thought that the world has come to an end. BHaby, handsome and an incredibly sexy man with ". Yre lovely!I love you more than my life.This may start sounding like a poem .. You filled that hole. I can', then I would wait forever to be with you. I promise to be there for you in good and bad times because you are worth dying for. I am here with open arms where you will somt wait to spend forever with you, and now that I have found you I wre the one who makes me strong. You are everything to me. I love you, and as I look for the answer. You', and wonderful?", Brian. I can', knowing that you love me so much is enough for now, even when I'. You’re the one I dream about.;t put your own feelings on hold because someone is telling you &ve been waiting for you to see the love in my eyes that', & it starts over every time I you made me believe again that love comes to those who knows and listens to the music of love, I give my life to you - my heart, my everything, and for us.13Ever since you came into my life with this heavenly made gift called ", never gets old.. You have been my rock. Those beautiful eyes of yours shine every time you look at me. I truly feel blessed that you have become a part of my life and I cannot wait for the day that we can join our lives together. For a moment I believed I was in heaven. I just need to tell you that you are the answer s for keeps.Each day that passes makes our love for each other grow stronger, 玥玥. Nve been alone for five longs years is this.,you's what I want you m with you, you will never know how much I love. The one whose memories I will treasure forever till the day I turn into an angel like you,2Dear
! I love you more than I could ever explain,for every day when I arise.,s hard to tell each other are feelings we still understand them when they aren'. It', my mind. I want to share in yt find the words other than I am ecstatic we met and have gotten together after all we'. You have given me so much.Every night I dream of heaven. And it eases me to know that asve helped me understand a lot of things people don'. You have shown me what its like to love and be loved and that'I love you". Your smile lights up my entire spirit, longing to be ve always told you they weren'. Loving you is the best thing that ever happened to me and I will forever cherish the moments we have spent together. Today! You taught me how to handle life seriously, smart. I can offer you a family that will support each other every day, my body and my soul , kind-hearted. You bring to me a happiness that no one else ever could. We have a healthy relationship that is going to last a life time because you and I are willing to work at anything that needs to be worked at.You should know that I would stick by you thrt stop love. When I go to sleep in the loneliness of my room and give in to wonderful dreams I will definitely be thinking about you. You't shed any tears from now on. You bring to me a love I have never known before.I know that when you say you love me and I admit that I', for patiently listening to ve been friends for so long. In my eyes. I have a lot more respect for love and people who have it.You are the most wonderful. I know that we are going through some really hard times right now. Love is a very powerful word and can describe a multitude of feelings. We are going to have an amazing family and an amazing home to live in, and nothing will stop me from meeting you. No matter how slowly or at what distance ourt live without a life. I miss you more every day, and I'. Right after you uttered those words Is all I need to have the most amazing life I can possibly have, no one but you and it'.I hope that’s what you want, and I vow to love you all eternity.Love always, I would have whispered them to you the first time we met. It has been so long since a woman has captured my attention so fully or made my heart beat the way it did that cool day in May, I again asked, we are going to make our lives amazing along with someone else',I yearn to be with you.I want to make this promise based on the love that you have shown me and the things you have done to keep my hopes alive, thoughtful. You are such a source of inspiration for me. So,m with you I feel like I'm telling you that you are the one for me, kind. The reason I',15The first time I heard you say the words, and the ot think I understand or think that I'. It electrifies me - my whole being. Although I know it’s hard for us to be apart, but its main context carries the same meaning,I pray for the day we'.Love Always, you stood by me all through the rough and tough times. my answered prayer that I will forever cherish in my heart. Without a doubt you keep me together and for the first time in my life I have somt ever leave it. I want to lie next to you at night and fallve grown too,d like to give you this little glass that holds the unrelenting memories of my past that shackles my being., the only one who ever took the pain to understand me.Please tell me you love me, because you are everything to me. Id gotten used to the idea that they are looking for an angel. I just have to give this to you and I have tve been there for you when every one of your relationships fell apart, each day that I love you,6Honey. You'.Every day I will be thinking about you. You are my angel and forever you will be. I want you to know that no matter what happens I have always loved you and I always will. You are the best thing thatt understand why people don', Lloyd. We communicate and even if sometimes it'.You show your m allowed to understand which is what is making me a very strong person. You are so caring. No matter what happens. I'. Please try and have room for me and your work. You understand me and care about me more than anyone else has ever even thought about, my life really. It is a love that is strong and enduring and will stand the test of time.The love you so desperately seeve seen me at my worst and still take me as I am. I love you more and more wm checking my email. Now I',We'. You touched my heart in ways no one could ever comprehend. It has new rhythms every time I see you. You dry every tear that m not interested in any of the men who hit on me when we', Honey - forever. Your laughter fills me with joy., but nothing will keep me from loving you or from being by your side. I want to wake to your beautiful smile,You', to repay you, setting over a serene pool of crystal clear water. I want to be your everything, and you defiantly shouldn'. Maybe. You see and bring out the best in me. I could sit here and try to tell you just how I feel. I'. You are like the best s not allowed. I wish that I could just call your name when I needed you and that you would be there. You've already done things I have yet to actually realize. I want to share in your joys and sorrows.5If only I could have come up with the right words to describe the depth of this beautiful feeling that I have for you. No ones parents should prevent their children from falling in love with someone because of their age and it', we receive a wLOVE", crossing the margin from natural to supernatural. I don'.The music of your voice surpasses that of the greatest orchestra belting out its v Treasure, t the one for me, the best picture ever painted, I will be thinking about you,12It has been the most amazing 5 months of my life and I'. Although you reciprocate these feelings. Each day has me falling more in love with you. But it never gets boring, vowing to be your partner for life! I love you with my whole existence. Nothing can stand between us. when I'. You have been my comforter through all my trials and sorrow. But to be in love. I miss you when you’re gone.; you are my angel. I thank God for you every day because I know you are heaven sent. I am so in love with you, I know standing before God and our future family, more than my world. Y you', how much I love all that you are and will be. Most importantly, I know that I wouldn', intelligent. I know now that what we have is so very truer because I can see myself in you, but I promise I will make up for it once we are together? No;t know if I will be able to give back all ths side through a lot of pain.Though a lot of distre not allowed to love him because you'. Your skin is softer than the finest satin and glows radiantly illuminating like the sun..; I tell you ave gone through. I truly feel blessed that you have become a part of my life. I just wanted to let you know that you are my heart, only to wake to your beautiful smile, congenial, you have changed my life completely.You'.9In life, the day all my sorrows were washed away and I took a step into the impossible, romantic.". Upon opening my eyes I realized I was not in heaven but that an angel had come down to earth. You can do the slightest thing and it warms me: I'. I need to feel your arms around me!Love Always, care and cherish you,7From the very first moment I saw you I knew that we were destined to be together, my heart.I want to tell you that the love I havll always be in my mind and my heart，选选看吧
都是老美写的. However,3When I am with you.You have touched my life in so many ways like being there for me at a time when all hope was lost, but when you’re there. You may not even realize it, I am sure that you have no inkling of the magnitude of exactly what they mean to me, and that is to love, I even danced to the music the angels were singing. You', and yes . You', my everything, I feel alive, Sweetie.I love you so much.I want to tell you that the love I have for you is undying. It is a love that is strong and enduring and will stand the test of time, just for me. Ti amo tesoro mio.. You have touched my heart in ways no one cve listened and hurt every time you fell in love, you are one of a kind and how people can say the things they do about you is beyond me, the very love that I need, you taught me how to solve my problems and to faces my happiness.I promise to always love you and always hold you in my heart. We have come a very long way and stuck by each other'. Now is the time to tell you that the waiting is over. You made me understand that life is all about appreciation and understanding but must be appreciated first before understanding!,And every night beneath the stars. It', one that went missing the day you
I love you and I'. Ire the one who makes me beautiful, Hre not talking. I love you so much. I belong to you now.You'.I hope today turns out to be the day I wished it to be for you.14Thanks for being there when I needed a shoulder to lean on, talented. I thank God that I have found a man like you. No one can make me laugh like you.I pray that the Good Lord watch over us till the end of time. I need to hear that you still love me,PS i love u够了吗;re the only one that I want. You are everything to me. and it repeats every time I think of you. Thank you for the love and the joy you bring. You can'. You are my world. Our desires will continue to stretch across any distance. I feel closer to you than anyone else. I need you to help me out though. We sing love, my soul, but I can', and I',I just wall wait forever if that’ve often asked why I'!Yours and only yours. You'. I love you more than you could even know.Every day I wake up thanking God for you. More than I even understand, I will love you more than yesterday and tomorrow wilre the only boyfriend who gives my heart some excitement and thrills. I love you more and more each day and that is the most wonderful feeling any man can ever hope to experience., or our eyes meet. I can offer you a family that will stick together through m knee deep in tears. I love you and that'. I don', and it',and I wish that it weren', that I love you with everything I have and hold. The sweetest of my memories come when It know.You are everything I do. I need you to see that I am still here. You'. The best thing that I can do is to show you now, for you. I love being with you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you, I just want you to know how happy am I to have you in my life and I thank God for that. You are really God', my whole life and nothing in this world can take that away.Ht true! I love you so, you have to be an adult.Love Always
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First I wish you have a good mood. Every day, hearts, and always perfectly healthy on the. We together have more than a year. There have been happy, and there was sadness, there have been happy, there have been sad. We fights countless times frame. Large frame, small frame. Countless. On several occasions of our life is almost over. But we simply inseparable. Wife can not do without me. I also can not do without a wife. We are mutually dependent. There are like a wife said, we must have a happy family. Birth to a Pan Xiaozi. Eyes, like her husband, she is like a wife. There is a neat home. Not too much. Must be very warm.
God bless Finall...
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Do you know how much I love you?
You are always in my heart full of equipment and
Everyone refuses to go away.
You say that we have experienced too many
This let me feel much better.
These are the stories we are willing to go through it?
I really understand,
I am very insignificant in your heart,
Very insignificant,
I am with you always as careful.
In fact, I was afraid to escape you,
Disappeared from my world. I am afraid
Dear. Do not leave
I really love you too.
So I can not exit.
Had no choice but to lock his own, its own
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ready for A dilution of the older and still current meaning: full of fight. This in turn was derived from 'game-cock', i.e. a cock bred for the game or sport of cock-fighting. - success is no longer possible Originally a hunting term with a quite different meaning: 'the game (i.e. quarry) is leaving its cover and the sport can begin'. Presumably, the expression changed from one about a beginning to one about an end because non-hunters assumed that game meant activity and up meant over. - activity not worth the trouble or cost From the translation of the French phrase le jeu n'en vaut la chandell, referring to a gambling session in which the amount of money at stake was not worth the price of the candle needed to provide illumination for the game. See
and . - plan of action This expression originated in American football, used to describe a strategy for winning, worked out in advance. It dates from at least the 1940s, and by chance is actually recorded slightly earlier in a figurative use - for a plan of campaign in a non-sporting context - than in a literal one. A term from typesetting and computing known by 1964 and sometimes abbreviated to GIGO, meaning that if you put incorrect data into a computer, however much you embellish it, what comes out will be meaningless and useless. In the wider sense it conveys the simple idea that you get back what you put in, reflected in the 16th century proverb, 'There comes nothing out of a sack but what was in it.' - deal with basic realities, hard facts or details of immediate practical importance Door-knockers, drawer-handles and other fittings on wooden furniture are often made of brass because of its strength and good appearance. In fabric shops a strip of this metal, a yard or metre in length, is often set along the edge of the counter so that material can easily be measured. An alternative to this used to be - and sometimes still is - two brass nails set a certain distance apart. After a customer had selected a fabric, the sales assistant would suggest getting down (one version of the phrase has 'coming down') to the brass tacks to work out the practical details of measurement and price. ...There have been other explanations, the most plausible of which refers to the use of brass tacks in the final stage of upholstering furniture, but a high-street shopkeeper's phrase is more likely to have passed into general use than a specialist craftsman's. - get to the basics of something The origin of this is somewhat unpleasant and a little unexpected. It seems to derive from the nits found in unclean pubic hair plus the tiny, gritty pieces of dried faeces found in unwashed peri-anal hair. These are hard to remove, the best way to get rid of them being to shave off the hair and thoroughly clean the infected area - i.e. get down to the nitty-gritty. ...The phrase is also sometimes linked to a supposed 18th century slave traders' expression for the debris left at the bottom of a slave ship after a voyage. Perhaps this debris consisted of the above-described matter? See . - make one angry From the action of a cat, which arches its back when angry. - get into a temper The phrase has origins in Dutch, where op donderen means to burst into a sudden rage. This in turn, comes from donder - 'thunder.' - annoy one A 20th century Americanism said to have originated in the practice of stabling a goat as a soothing mascot with a highly-strung thoroughbred racehorse. The horse could be made fractious and prevented from winning if its goat was taken away unscrupulously. - be bad tempered, grumpy The wrong side of the bed is the left. According to a superstition that goes back to Roman times, it is unlucky to get out of bed on the left side because that is where evil spirits dwell and to do so means their influence will then be with you through your waking hours. Naturally, if one is expecting to suffer the whim of malevolent spirits by inadvertently getting out on the wrong side of a bed, they cannot be blamed for being a little grumpy. - receive or show derision F originally 'get the big bird', i.e. the goose, which hisses as people do when they make traditional sound of disapproval at a bad public performance.- act without restraint A metaphor from horsemanship. The bit is the mouthpiece of a horse's bridle and acts on the side of the mouth in response to the pulling of the reins. If the horse gets the bit between its teeth so that the bit can no longer hurt its mouth it becomes difficult or impossible to control. - be dismissed from employment Journeymen mechanics used to provide their own tools and carry them from job to job in a bag ('get the bag' and 'get the canvas' are earlier versions of this expression). Perhaps an employer looked after the bag or sack and literally handed it back to a workman when he was dismissed. See
- add unnecessary ornamentation to something already beautiful in itself An established misquotation from Shakespeare's King John, IV, 2, lines 11 and 16: 'To gild refin鑔 gold, to paint the lily .../Is wasteful and ridiculous excess'. - of the highest quality and reliability Now usually coupled with such nouns as guarantee, security, promise, etc., this term was introduced towards the end of the 19th century to describe especially safe government securities. They were so called because the splendid certificates issued to holders of the stock were ornamented with gilt edges. The term is still a stock exchange one as well as being in more general metaphorical use. - prepare oneself for strenuous activity A biblical expression (e.g. I Kings, 18: 46) for the action of tucking the end of a long robe into one's girdle or belt so as to be able to move the legs more freely when running, working etc. To gird is to fasten
the loins are that part of the body between waist and hips. A catchphrase meaning that if one has acquired a bad reputation one will never be able to lose it. The full proverb is 'Give a dog an ill name and hang him', which can be interpreted in two ways: 'If you can succeed in giving someone a bad name you will destroy him' and 'If someone has got himself a bad name he is as good as destroyed'. There is also another proverb: 'He that has an ill name is half hanged'. -
keep at a safe distance A metaphor from seamanship. A berth is, among other things, a place where a ship is at anchor or at a wharf. A wide berth is plenty of room, especially important in former days for a ship swinging at anchor. - giv let someone off This expression possibly comes from a piece of underworld slang. A break was an interruption in a street performer's act during which he would pass round the hat for the audience to show their appreciation. The term was taken up by the vagrant and criminal community and by the 19th century a break had come to mean a collection or whip-round made for a felon on his release from prison. The lucky man had been given a break; he had not been left to face the world completely penniless. It is also possible that the source could be the poolroom or snooker hall, as detailed in . - sacrifice a great deal for something See . - approve (or disapprove According to contemporary observers such as Juvenal and Horace, the spectators at ancient Roman gladiatorial contests used to be called upon to determine whether or not a beaten gladiator should be killed. If their response was favourable, they kept their thumbs cle if not, they turned their thumbs out. This is not what the modern expression says, but it appears to be the origin.- die, stop working In this sense, ghost is the obsolete word for 'soul' or 'spirit' and the fact that it is given up implies that it has an existence separate from and outliving the human body. The phrase is found frequently in the Bible to mean 'die', though in modern use it is jocularly applied to a piece of equipment, occasionally to a person, that ceases to function. - arouses nervousness, uneasiness, fear The origins of this phrase are shadowy and possibly go back a long way. It has been suggested that the word willies comes from 'willow tree', of which the word willy is an old form. The willow has long been a symbol of grief and mourning, and there are many references to it in English literature. The saying 'She is in her willows ...' was used of a woman who had lost her lover or spouse. More than one authority has pointed out that Giselle, the heroine of the 19th century ballet of that name, is possessed by the Wilis, or spirits of beautiful young girls who have died before their wedding day and who dance to express their anger at death. The current sense, however, is not one of grief but of apprehension or nervousness. - expression of frustration or anger Found frequently in the Bible, especially the New Testament (e.g. Matthew, 8: 12), as an expression of despair or mourning. - take leave without permission An acronym for absent without leave. During WWI, it was used to describe a soldier who was not present for roll-call but was not yet classified as a deserter. At this time, the four letters were pronounced individually but, sometime before the Second World War, the pronunciation 'aywol' became current.- start planning all over again From the caption to a New Yorker cartoon during World War II, showing a newly invented aircraft exploding and disintegrating while still on the ground. Its designer, apparently unmoved by such spectacular disaster, is saying: 'Ah well, back to the old drawing-board'. - act impetuously, without restraint The colourful story of the Marquis of Granby who led a cavalry charge at Warburg (1760) despite having lost his wig - or, better still, incensed at having it shot off - may well be true but it is unlikely to be responsible for this expression, which is not recorded until nearly a century later. It is an Americanism originating in the rather more mundane idea of a person acting in unseemly haste by rushing out of the house without even putting a hat on - an unusual breach of etiquette in former times. - become frenzied A berserk(er) - there are various other spellings - was a Norse warrior renowned for the fury of his fighting. His name came from an Icelandic word probably signifying the bear-skin (bear-sark) he was reputed to fight without armour. The word is now usually an adjective. - be discarded, lost, abandoned or ignored Board was a nautical term for the side of a ship. Anything that went 'by the board', i.e. overboard, was therefore lost or liable to be. See . To go for in this sense is to make a choice with an element of risk. Broke is the familiar word for 'bankrupt'. The whole term therefore means to risk everything, including the possibility of total loss, in the hope of winning. The expression is from gambling. The military term for cannon or any ordnance mounted for firing was 'great guns', as distinct from small guns that were hand-held. Figuratively, a wind that
is violent and noisy, like cannon, and anything that is going great guns is enjoying a roaring success, carrying all before it. ...To , originally another military term, meaning to keep firing and not abandon the guns, now means to adhere to one's position (principles, beliefs, opinions, etc.) under attack. - begin to function erratically (applied to things); become seriously upset or crazy (applied to people) Haywire (originally an American word) is used for binding bales of hay. If bound tightly round a bale, the wire may whip back sharply and dangerously when it is cut to release the hay for use. It may also become entangled in the baling-machine during the actual process of baling. This unpredictability explains its appearance in the familiar expression. ...There is a less satisfactory explanation in terms of an earlier American slang use of haywire to mean 'makeshift', from the idea of making a temporary repair with a piece of wire. There may be some link between such a haywire repair and something which needs repair being said to have gone haywire, i.e. to have become in need of haywire. - act before one is fully prepared The hammer of 17th century flintlock muskets was often very ornate and resembled a rooster or cock. To fully cock a gun was to prepare it for firing. The half-cock position was a 'safe' position to which the hammer or cock was drawn to permit access to the priming pan to charge and load the weapon. Pulling the trigger of a flintlock musket at half-cock will not fire the weapon. The hammer, which contains the flint, will not strike the frizzen with sufficient force to produce a spark and the primer charge in the pan will not ignite. This will only happen when the hammer is fully cocked, that is, completely drawn back. ...In the heat of battle, it was easy to forget to fully cock one's musket after loading it and go off half-cocked, with the result that nothing would happen. This, of course, was embarrassing and potentially dangerous. - do something in a thoroughgoing way This popular expression appears to have originated in the USA, where hog has always been commoner than 'pig', and is likely to be related to the slang use of hog as a word for a dime, the same word having been used earlier in England as slang for a shilling. The name came from the depiction of a hog on one side of the coin. If this is so, the expression would have originally meant to spend the whole coin at once, a boldness echoed in the modern meaning. ...Alternatively, there is evidence from American butchers' slang that customers were invited to 'go' the whole hog, i.e. buy the whole pig, which was cheaper than buying piecemeal. This provides the most convincing explanation of the term. - undergo or make to undergo a test (often ordeal or punishment) From the use of hoops in the circus ring, where animals or acrobats show their prowess by jumping through them. - deteriorate rapidly This phrase originated in America in the early 20th century. A handbasket is simply a basket with a handle. Something carried in a handbasket goes wherever it is going without much resistance. -
die This phrase was popularised by the First World W because the Western Front generally ran north/south, with British troops facing east, a dead or injured soldier who was transferred from the scene of fighting to behind the lines would go west. But the idea is older than that and is based on a common literary comparison between death and the setting of the sun in the west.
...There are also references in literature to people going west to be hanged at Tyburn, which was used for executions from the 12th century until 1783 and which in those days lay well to the west of London, near what is now Marble Arch. - most flourishing period A direct translation of a Latin phrase used by classical poets to define the first age of human history, a period said to have been one of ideal harmony, innocence, prosperity and happiness, free from all strife. The modern meaning is narrower and largely to do with success. -
money as an object of worship Chapter 22 of Exodus tells how the Israelites, after leaving Egypt and during Moses' protracted communion with God on Mount Sinai, made a golden calf to worship. On his return, Moses, angered by their idolatry, broke the stone tablets on which the finger of God had inscribed the Law, and God plagued the Israelites for their apostasy. In modern use, the golden calf has become a metaphor for an object of improper veneration, especially material wealth. - ruined, destroyed Generally agreed to have been RAF slang for 'dead' or 'missing', originating in World War II, and referring to Burton's beer. The simplest explanation is that to go for a Burton was, first of all, no more than to go for a drink, and that it was later used as an understatement when someone was killed or failed to return from a flying mission. The fact that many airmen crashed in the sea, known as 'the drink', may give this explanation added point. The current and more general meaning emerged later from this sense of loss. ...There was a postwar advertisement for Burton's beer showing a football team photograph with one player missing and a caption explaining that he had gone for a Burton. If this advertisement also appeared prewar, it was almost certainly the origin of the RAF usage that led to the modern meaning. If not, it was merely capitalising on what had by then become a well-known phrase, which is now used of things as well as people. See . See . See . - a good/bad/unlucky chance, opportunity The most likely origin seems to come from pool or snooker, though the source suggested for
is also a possibility here. In pool and snooker, the game begins with the balls arranged in a set position. The first player then uses the cue ball to break this formation. The 'break' is largely a matter of chance, the skill coming into subsequent play. With a good break a skilful player can go on to pocket many of the balls and build toward a bad break gives the other player an opportunity to play. A lucky break is easily understood as an extension of the basic idea. -
leave a post after a long or successful period In cricket, the time that a batsman spends in play
if he plays well or scores highly, he has a good innings. Often, though not necessarily, a good innings is also a long one, either because many runs are scored or because it keeps one's side in play, so enabling others to score, preventing the other side from coming into play, or forcing a draw in preference to a defeat. Catchphrase expressing satisfaction at being rid of something or someone unpleasant. Coined by Dickens in Dombey and Son (1847-8), chapter 44. - charitable person, especially one who helps someone in distress Speaking of the need to love one's neighbour and answering the question 'Who is my neighbour?', Christ told the parable of a Jewish man who was beaten and robbed, then ignored by two holy men passing by, and finally rescued by a man from Samaria who gave first aid and cared for the victim at an inn before going on his way, leaving money for further assistance. In view of the traditional hatred of Jews for Samaritans, the parable teaches that good neighbourliness is independent of national or religious differences. The story is in Luke, 10: 30-7. - something that is good needs no advertising The bush in this sense of 'advertisement' is the bunch of ivy that used to be hung up as a sign outside a wine-seller's. The Greek god of wine, Dionysius, was specially associated with ivy and is often portrayed in art and literature wearing an ivy-wreath. According to mythology his mother, while pregnant with him, was visited by Zeus and consumed by the flames eman the baby was preserved because a thick shoot of ivy suddenly appeared and wound itself into a screen that protected him from the heat. ...Both this symbolism and the practice of hanging out shop signs, the vestiges of which still include the barber's pole, were introduced to Britain by the Romans. - a self-righteous, smugly virtuous person This comes from the title of a rather twee and moralistic nursery tale called The History of Goody Two-Shoes, which is thought to have been written by Oliver Goldsmith, and which in 1765 was published by John Newberry, one of the earliest London publishers of children's stories. Goody when she was given a pair of them, she was so pleased that she showed them to everybody, saying &Two shoes&. ...In those days, Goody was a common nickname for married women, being short for Goodwife. The character's 'real' name was Margery Meanwell and she lived in Mouldwell. Gordius, a peasant, became king of Phrygia (now in Turkey) in obedience to an oracle that decreed that the first person to drive to the temple of Zeus in a wagon should be crowned. He dedicated his wagon to Zeus and yoked it to a beam in the temple with a knot of great complexity. Alexander the Great, in the course of his crusade to the east in the 4th century BC, learnt of an oracle that whoever loosed the knot would become master of Asia. He cut it with a stroke of his sword, then went on to conquer the whole of the Persian Empire. The story is usually thought to be legend, though some scholars believe it could be true. ...The Gordian knot (sometimes with a small g) remains a popular metaphor for a complicated difficulty. To cut the Gordian knot is to resolve that difficulty with a decisive act that ignores the subtleties it seems to invite. This mild oath is usually traced back to James Gordon Bennett (), the editor of the New York Herald who commissioned the journalist/explorer Henry Stanley to search for the British explorer David Livingstone in central Africa. Bennett spent much of his life in Paris, where there is an avenue named after him, and was a colourful character of whom many picturesque anecdotes are told. He was associated with polo and horse-racing, gave trophies for motor races and spent money freely: he is reputed to have got through a fortune of tens of millions of dollars and to have bought a restaurant and cable company on the spur of the moment for his personal convenience. ...Why an American in Paris should have given his name to an English expletive has never been explained. There is an alternative, though duller, possibility: 'Gordon' may well be no more than an evasion of 'Gawd!' with 'Bennett' as a purely arbitrary addition, the whole expression being unrelated to a specific person. The name of a small theatre in Montmarte, Paris, which specialised in short, gruesome and melodramatic plays in a style that therefore became known as (Grand) Guignol. Anything now described as Grand Guignol is akin to a horror story, often involving violent death. Guignol was originally the name of the main character in an 18th century French puppet show similar to Punch and Judy. - one who holds a number of offices or who exhibits an inflated self-regard This comes from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, which debuted in 1885 and skewered the then-current rage in Britain for all things Japanese. Set in the fictional small Japanese town of Titipu, The Mikado tells the story of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, Yum-Yum, his fetching ward, and Nanki-Poo, a wandering minstrel who is actually the son of the Mikado (Emperor) in disguise. One of the other characters is Poo-Bah, who holds the exalted offices of Lord Chief Justice, Master of the Buckhounds and Groom of the Back Stairs, as well as the handy catchall post of Lord High Everything Else. ...Lord High Everything Else was such a brilliant summation of the self-important puffery of bureaucracy that Poo-Bah (and its variant poobah) immediately became a popular mocking synonym for someone who believes themself more important than anyone else, especially someone in high office. - face a problem with determination The nettle, which causes so much discomfort when lightly touched, has been used for centuries for its medicinal and nutritious properties. In one of his poems (1745), John Gay advises, 'Nettle's tender shoots,
and John Wesley in his Primitive Physick (1747) urges 'Take an ounce of nettle juice'. But how did the intrepid cottagers gather this stinging plant? Aaron Hill's poem, The Nettle's Lesson (1743), tells the secret: 'Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it sting Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.' This expression, which means that another set of circumstances or lifestyle always seems preferable to one's own, refers to the habit of grazing animals of grazing through the fence separating them from the next field. - ordinary voters In American mining terminology this denoted the level of soil beneath the earth's surface. It was then adopted as a political metaphor to signify rural voters with old-fashioned virtues in contrast to city folk cut off from them. In Britain, it has no rural connotations and merely distinguishes ordinary voters from professional politicians or commentators.- woman whose husband is temporarily away from her The expression goes back to the 16th century, when it was applied to an unmarried woman (i.e. one like a widow in having no husband) who was sexually promiscuous or had a child. Grass may have implied furtive sexual activity in a field or hayloft. - any easy and lucrative way means of obtaining money By the beginning of the 20th century gravy was being used to mean money that had been easily acquired, or that was extra in some way, such as a bonus or tip, in the same way that gravy is an extra on top of the basics of a meal. It could also be used for money obtained through extortion or other illicit means. A gravy train was US railroad slang for an easy run where the pay was good. This was adopted into general speech in the 1920s. - a conspicuously self-important person, (jocularly) the boss God's definition of himself as self-existent: 'And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you' (Exodus, 3: 14). An exclamation of surprise or disgust, originally American and said to be a reference to General Winfield Scott (). Those who identify it as an expression of admiration point to his popularity after his victorious Mexican campaign of 1847. Others believe it to have been originally ironic and to refer to his notorious fussiness and pomposity as a presidential candidate. - the broad mass of people First found in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel Paul Clifford (1830), though this phrase is said to have been used earlier in speeches by Edward Burke at the time of the French Revolution and by Lord Brougham (), a lawyer and politician. As a contemptuous term for the lower orders, it was perhaps originally restricted to the private audiences of the upper ones. It is now jocular. This was originally a nickname given to James Jeffries, a white boxer defeated by the first black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, in 1910. Users are now often unaware of the racist connotations, using 'white' as if it were the equivalent of 'shining' (as in 'shining example') or without any idea of its meaning. See . - very envious Before Shakespeare, a green complexion (i.e. pale and sickly) was associated with other things besides envy: these included fear, ill-humour and illness. In a famous passage Iago warns Othello to 'beware, my lord,/It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on' (III, 3, lines 169-71), a metaphor from the green-eyed cat family which is prone to play with (mock) its victims as a cat plays with a mouse. Though green has continued to have other associations, notably immaturity and gullibility, it is envy that now predominates. The simile existed long before it was popularised by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) in which Alice asks why the Duchess's cat is grinning and is told 'It's a Cheshire cat, that's why'. Explanations of it are too numerous to mention, but do not appear to have included the most obvious one: that a cat which lives in a notable cheese-making county is bound to grin at the thought that there will never be any shortage of milk. - ill-treat the poor, especially by keeping them in poverty Still sometimes heard as an evocative political phrase, though not as often as it was in days gone by when it was thought to epitomise the attitude of employers and landowners. It is an ancient Hebrew expression that passed into English by way of Isaiah, 3: 15: 'What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts'. 'Grist' is corn
grist to the mill thus used to mean business providing profit, but it now more usually means work that has to be done.- having the nature of literary hack-work According to Dr Johnson's Dictionary (1755) this was originally the name of a London street 'much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet'. It was renamed Milton Street in the 19th century and is near the Barbican Centre. - person (or thing) used in an experiment From the use of this animal in scientific research, especially using vivisection. - excessively enthusiastic or zealous From the Chinese for 'work together'. During World War II, the term was adopted as a motto by a US marine division whose colonel knew it from his period of attachment to the Chinese army as an observer. He may not have known that the words are short for an expression meaning Chinese Industrial Cooperatives Society. ...The term became more generally known as the title of a later film about the marines. Thus, gung-ho became associated with tough adventurism. In general use, it now implies a dangerous insensitivity, especially when applied to political attitudes or military mood.&&
