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a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse --anyone know origin and date first used "an inclination of the cranium is as beneficent to an equine quadruped bereft of it's visual capacities"from 'plain...
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As beneficent as what? It looks as though a laborious periphrasis has been omitted.
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Brewers seems to be as good as it gets on this one. The original meaning: a gesture to one who is unwilling or unable to notice is in vain, has been reversed by shortening the phrase to "A nod is as...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable dates it back to the late 18th century.
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And where would the Faces have been without Rod Stewart? Eh? You think Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane would have made that album on their tod? I think not![/wildly off topic]
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A man once told me... there are two things in the Universe: 1) What Is and 2) How You Feel About It. One of the problems in life is that much of what we think is part of number one is really part of...
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Not that you really asked for a clarification, but here it is anyway...1) Objective - Facts2) Subjective - OpinionsThe fact is the album was recorded under the name of the band, not under the name of...
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Or, the ultimate lesson of Zen Buddhism: It may all be illusion but a whack upside the head still hurts.
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Horsefeathers. Evan Morris (The Word Detective) in his 1 July 1997 column has a nifty "google" on this:The term "horsefeathers" (meaning nonsense) was invented by Billy De Beck, a famous American...
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rod stewart the jacobite saidyou are not what you think you are but what you think you are i think it was rod stewart -- maybe it was jimmy stewart!but then?The Gracehoper was always jigging ajog,...
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