Where is this phrase from?
Its been annoying me for a while, I can't seem to figure out where this phrase is from or what it even means. Can anyone explain it to me? The phrase is: "And now the matador shall dance with the blind shoemaker"
Where is this phrase from?
I've known this phrase for most of my life, "You don't know me, you don't know my life. You don't know what I've been through". Possibly with a Latino accent, but maybe not. I say it frequently, but for the life of me cannot remember what it's from. Does anyone know?
Where is this phrase from?
i think its from shake spear
Night is still young...where is this phrase?
Nowhere in Shakespeare does there appear anything about the night being young.
What does the phrase, "be still, my heart" mean?
Boy, all the answerers who say it's a feminine quote really miss the mark! The original quote is from Homer's Odyssey. Odysseus, the macho warrior hero, says it while he's lying awake thinking about how he's going to kick out all the men who've been making moves on his wife while he was out wandering. "Be still, my heart, thou hast known worse than this, on that day when the Cyclops, unrestrained in fury, devoured the mighty men of my company..."It's used to denote a person who is agitated or excited in some way and is trying to calm himself or herself. Since it's a (very!) old-fashioned quote, it is often used ironically be people who are often unaware of its origins.
What does this phrase from Oliver Twist mean?
Dickens was often paid by the word, and it shows. I have a BA in English, I'm a librarian, and I agree with you 100%. It's like a character walks into a room, and now we get five pages describing the room in complete and, yes, obtuse detail. Then we get back to the person who just walked into the room. With this passage, I'm guessing that Sikes asked this question in a way that if it were only heard "above" once in the 50,000 times it is said, would strike people blind--and blindness would be as common as measles was then. In other words, just 1/50,000 of the amount of times this question is asked would be a massive amount. (At first I thought he was saying this had been asked in a unique way, but once I plowed through it, I think he's saying just the opposite.) At least, that's what I think it means. :-)
What does "go on with your bad self" mean? Where is this phrase from?
it comes from the song Go On With Your Bad Self" by Consumer Rapport its hard to explain what it means but in those days bad meant good
I have this phrase from ,I think, a movie stuck in my head that I can't remember.?
the phrase is "Put your hands in your pockets, shove your attitude way down, and also be nice to people" or something simmilar to that. I just can't remeber no matter how hard I try!
What is the origin of the phrase, "this, too, shall pass"?
This is a proverb from the medieval Levent (Persian, Hebrew and Turkey) around 1200AD. The proverb means that all material conditions, whether good or bad, are transient. This proverb has the ability to make the happy person sad and the sad person happy because of the realization that both the 'best and worst of times' will soon pass.I love the quote and it is a prudent reminder for us all that regardless of how the serendipity of life has dealt with us, it will soon pass. It speaks to me that "Change is the one constant in the universe" and it aligns with what the poet Rudyard Kipling said in his poem "IF" ...If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same Looking around the web, what I have below is the best I can come up with in regard to its history ...The legend of the quote finds its roots in the court of a powerful eastern Persian ruler who called his sages (wise men) to him, including the Sufi poet Attar of Nishapur, and asked them for one quote that would be accurate at all times and in all situations. The wise men consulted with one another, and threw themselves into deep contemplation, and finally came up with the answer ..."this too, shall pass".The ruler was so impressed by the quote that he had it inscribed in a ring.The quote was popular in the first half of the 19th century particularly with the English poet Edward Fitzgerald and later being employed in a speech by Abraham Lincoln, in his address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society in 1859. He summed up the quote's impact so well by saying:"How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction."