Below you will find the phrases that have been added recently. You may submit as many phrases as you wish. Thank you.
Phrase: We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first – rock 'n' roll or Christianity
Author: John Lennon in 1966
Meaning: Rock 'n' roll, of course, as it is the real thing.
Date: 2017-05-30 23:52:34
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Subject: Atheism
Phrase: Stop the world. I want to get off
Author: Groucho Marx
Date: 2017-05-30 23:48:47
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Subject: Humour
Phrase: The language of Castile is Castillian. Full stop.
Meaning: The words Spain and Spanish to refer to the Kingdom of Castile and its language are incorrect and imperialist. A Portuguese is Spanish, but not Castilian. Spanish means 'someone who lives in (or comes from) the Iberian peninsula'.
Sent by Miquel Molina
Date: 2017-05-05 22:59:06
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Subject: Politics
Phrase: Information is power
Date: 2017-04-12 16:27:14
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Subject: Control
Phrase: Politics is for the moment; an equation is for eternity
Author: Albert Einstein
Date: 2016-10-15 21:22:35
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Subject: Politics
Phrase: Stupidity is contagious
Author: Garfield
Date: 2016-03-25 13:47:08
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Subject: Stupidity
Phrase: Keep/Hold something/someone at bay
Meaning: To have someone or something dangerous or bad or unwanted under control:
They kept the enemy at bay for several hours.
Thankfully, we managed to hold the contagious disease at bay.
Date: 2015-07-24 23:10:49
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Subject: Control
Phrase: Teach somebody a lesson
Meaning: Make sure someone gets what he or she deserves so that he or she will never do it again: Corrupt politicians should be taught a lesson by not voting for them any more.
Date: 2015-07-24 23:10:24
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Subject: Experience
Phrase: Learn your lesson
Meaning: You did something wrong, and now you regret it, so you will not do it again: I had a car accident because I had been driving very fast, but I learnt my lesson.
Date: 2015-07-24 23:09:53
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Subject: Experience
Phrase: Give someone/something the cold shoulder
Meaning: To turn your back on somebody/something, not to support somebody/something, to be unfriendly towards somebody, to ignore somebody/something:
I regret to inform you that they gave our proposal the cold shoulder, which is why we will not be able to help the needy any longer.
I can't understand why she gave me the cold shoulder at the party last evening. She ignored me completely.
Date: 2015-07-24 23:09:14
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Subject: Indifference
Phrase: A necessary evil
Meaning: Something that you dislike, but that it seems necessary: Fines should not be a necessary evil in most cases. There should be other alternatives.
Date: 2015-07-24 23:08:22
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Subject: Usefulness
Phrase: A false alarm
Meaning: An erroneous (emergency) alert: We were told that the building was on fire, but it was a false alarm
Date: 2015-07-24 23:07:44
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Subject: Fear
Phrase: Leave somebody in the lurch
Meaning: To abandon someone when he or she most needs it: You left me in the lurch last year, and now you want me to employ you again.
Date: 2015-07-23 23:41:53
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Subject: Sadness
Phrase: The evil eye
Meaning: It is believed that there are people that can curse you by looking at you, and make your life miserable. This power is called the evil eye. However, it is only a superstition.
Date: 2015-07-23 23:41:04
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Subject: Religion
Phrase: Give me (a) five / Gimme five
Meaning: When you slap somebody else's hand to denote satisfaction:
Dad, I got a distinction in my maths exam
Give me five, son!
Date: 2015-07-23 00:16:24
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Subject: Expressions
Phrase: Drive someone up the wall
Meaning: Make him or her feel very angry or furious: Will you please stop spitting on the carpet? It drives me up the wall.
Date: 2015-07-23 00:14:16
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Subject: Irritation
Phrase: Go up the wall
Meaning: Get very angry: My parents went up the wall when they found out that I had been playing truant for a month
Date: 2015-07-23 00:13:17
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Subject: Irritation
Phrase: The Union Jack (or the Union flag)
Meaning: The flag of the United Kingdom
Date: 2015-07-20 00:26:17
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Subject: Miscellany
Phrase: Kick a/the habit
Meaning: Give up a habit: Tobacco manufacturers do their utmost to prevent smokers from kicking the habit. They add ammonia and other substances that are highly addictive, which should be illegal.
Date: 2015-07-17 23:50:01
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Subject: Vices
Phrase: Up yours!
Meaning: Fuck you!, go to hell!: If I had been him, I would have told them, «I'am not going to accept your tyranny. Up yours!»
Date: 2015-07-16 23:39:03
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Subject: Irritation
Phrase: Under the weather
Meaning: Not well, ill: I feel/am feeling under the weather. I think I'll lie down (for) a bit.
Date: 2015-07-16 23:38:14
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Subject: Miscellany
Phrase: Be few and far between
Meaning: To be very rare: Politicians that think of the people seem to be few and far between these days.
Date: 2015-07-16 23:37:36
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Subject: Miscellany
Phrase: Be out of your mind
Meaning: To be crazy or stupid:
You must be out of your mind if you think I'm going to vote for the troika. I'm going to vote for freedom, and not for repression.
You must be out of your mind to set up a business with her. She was a corrupt politician.
Date: 2015-07-16 23:36:58
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Subject: Stupidity
Phrase: In the family way
Meaning: That is, pregnant: She is in the family way
Date: 2015-07-14 22:49:55
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Subject: Women
Phrase: Be a picture of health
Meaning: To look very healthy: She is a picture of health
Date: 2015-07-14 22:49:25
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Subject: Miscellany
