What is the origin of the term 'be there or be square'?
87850
well back in the day like 40's or 50's if there was a huge paty goin on that all the in people were going to, u were either there or u were square.
1173058
We end up with people like you, who do not know how to use grammar properly.   Are is a plural form of to be; it should go with implications and not implication.
463172
The quote you are thinking of is probably "standing on the shoulders of giants" which was used by Sir Isaac Newton in a letter to Robert Hooke. He said "If I have seen further it was by standing on the shoulder of giants". Incidentally, the phrase is etched onto the side of the 2 pound coin in the United Kingdom.
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This expression, meaning "be very careful to behave correctly",\nhas been in use from the 17th century on.  Theories include:  an\nadmonishment to children learning to write; an admonishment to\ntypesetters (who had to look at the letters reversed); an\nadmonishment to seamen not to soil their navy pea-jackets with\ntheir tarred "queues" (pigtails); "mind your pints and quarts";\n"mind your prices and quality"; "mind your pieds and queues"\n(either feet and pigtails, or two dancing figures that had to be\naccurately performed); the substitution of /p/ for "qu" /kw/ in the\nspeech of uneducated ancient Romans; or the confusion by students\nlearning both Latin and Ancient Greek of such cognates as _pente_\nand _quintus_.  And yes, we've heard the joke about the instruction\nto new sextons:  "Mind your keys and pews."
864958
With the verbs for "to be" in Spanish, namely "ser" and "estar", depend on what you want to imply. Derived from there "they are" will be "Son".
660882
Ray Tomlinson in 1972.  One of the decisions that Tomlinson had to make as he experimented with e-mail was how to distinguish between messages that were headed out onto the network and those that were addressed to users in the same office. He studied the keyboard for a symbol that didn't occur naturally in people's names and that wasn't a digit. The designation for mailboxes on remote computers that he came up with was the now ubiquitous @ symbol. "It designates a place, and it's the only preposition on the keyboard," he points out. Though it turned out to be a decision with far-reaching impact, at the time Tomlinson gave it only "30 to 40 seconds of thought."
230003
It is Que Sera Sera, literally, What (que) Will be (sera) will be (sera). Ser means "to be" and putting an "a" on the end puts it in future tense ("will be" as opposed to "be".)\n\nIt is Spanish, and was in a very popular song from the 60s sung by Doris Day. The song is entirely in english except for that phrase, which is pretty common to say, even in Spanish.
44098
Well, since squaring the circle in the sense it is traditionally meant (making a square with the same area as a specific circle, using ruling and compass) is impossible:\n\nNo profession.  Maybe magic leprechauns.
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"To be or not to be, --that is the question:--\nWhether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer\nThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune\nOr to take arms against a sea of troubles,\nAnd by opposing end them?"\n\n\n\n\nthe 1 whch i like \n\n\n"I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.\nHear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell\nThat summons thee to heaven or to hell."
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It is actually unknown where the term originated, though it is often incorrectly identified as being attributed to the Harvard Computation Laboratory team*.  In 1947, team members there traced a problem in their Mark II computer to a moth trapped in a relay.  The term "bug" was already known to them, and finding a real one screwing up their machine was so funny that they saved it and made a note in their logbooks: "First actual case of bug being found".\n\nThe term was used in WWII and even prior to that in reference to engineering problems.  A letter from Thomas Edison dated 1878 even makes reference to them.\n\n*It is worthy to note that it is believed that the Harvard team DID coin the phrase "debug".
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I don't know if this is really true, but it makes sense:\n\ngood-bye - originally a contraction of 'God be with ye (you)'; 'God' developed into 'good', in the same style as good day, good evening, etc.; 'good be with ye' would have meant 'may you fare well'.
841974
What does "besy" mean?
1186088
I suspect it's supposed to be something like "Quod quondam iterum ego vado, in profundis vorago existimo iaci" which means something like "Whichever path I travel (in the past, in the future, sometimes), I judge myself to be thrown into a profound pit."\n\nIt didn't make much sense to me in the first version…I suspect it's a bad computer translation.
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In British usage, it derives from Far East, specifically Chinese, pidgin; it came to UK by way of the Merchant Service, reinforced by the R(oyal) N(avy). . . . It is in fact a literal translation of a very common Chinese greeting, 'hao jiu mei jian.'\n: The American. use of the phrase probably comes from the same source but has been strongly influenced by two or three very widely distributed popular anecdotes. . . . The oldest printed record  of it is afforded by Harry C. Witwer's 'Love and Learn,' 1924 (p. 73). The US currency goes back to the late 19th century as  judged  by the fact that the 'OED New Supp.' can cite a Red Indian as saying 'Long time no see you'. . . . There have been Chinese living and working up and down the West Coast of North America since the Gold Rush days of mid 19th century, and before."
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Perfect Squares\n\nEdit: First Four to be precise
1102989
The 'be advised' phrase is a command.  Generally English uses the non-inflected verb as the command.  Other such imperatives use be + adj:  Be sure, be happy, be good, be aware, be careful.  Another use is subjuncitive, although rare and sounds old--If he be seen,...if that be taken... More normal formal English would be If he were to be seen, if that were to be taken, if that would be taken.  \nPast participles are formed as in the preceding example.
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I think it was coined by Martin Lawrence, the same man who gave us "You go, Girl!"\n\nCave\n\np.s.---Just found this:\n\n"In the case of "don't go there," the earliest citation for the phrase in print in the Oxford English Dictionary comes from an interview with comedian Martin Lawrence in Entertainment Weekly back in February 1994. At the time the star of the highly-rated Fox sitcom "Martin," Lawrence took the opportunity to complain, oddly enough, that his material was being stolen by other Fox shows: \n\n"Something ain't right," Lawrence says, removing his sunglasses. ... "We started using the expressions 'You go, girl!' and 'Don't go there!' and no one in television was doing that. No one. Now a lot of Fox shows are using the same stuff and the same premises."