“As fit as a fiddle” ‘Fiddle' here is the colloquial name for a violin. ‘Fit’ didn’t originally mean healthy, in the sense it is nowadays often used to describe the gym-goers but was used to mean ‘suitable’ or ‘seemly’, similar to the way we now might say ‘fit for purpose’. “It ain't over till the … Continue reading Origins of phrases 1: Music
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There are many words relating to money – you would expect that as money is such a vital commodity. Words such as cash, coins, and currency are familiar, but there are also many slang words, such as: bread, dosh dough, lolly, lucre, moola/moolah, readies, scratch, shrapnel (for inconvenient amounts of loose change), spondulicks, wad … Continue reading It’s just a phrase I’m going through: Money slang
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My first blog concerning phrases touched on the types of phrase found in the English language. Here are a few of the many phrases relating to money (with thanks to the Oxford English Dictionary and A Word in Your Shell-like by Nigel Rees. Money for old rope: This concerns money or other reward earned … Continue reading It’s just a phrase I’m going through: Money
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A phrase is usually a small group of words that stand together as a unit, but technically it could consist of just one word. The Oxford Thesaurus gives several synonyms to describe a phrase: clause, idiom, expression, proverb, motto, adage, cliché, platitude, slogan, or saying. That is quite a broad spectrum. Nigel Rees in his … Continue reading It’s just a phrase I’m going through: Types of phrase
