Question about old sayings?
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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."
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When it says "they never leave an old argument unsettled," I'm thinking it means men have a tendency to bring old arguments/problems up if they feel it hasn't been dealt with properly. They don't like to just "drop it." If that's foreshadowing, it should mean that in the future of this story or whatever it is, there will be a man who keeps bringing some fight up because even if it's in the past, it's still bothering him that it was never resolved.\n\nI hope this makes sense!
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The past is already past.\nDon’t try to regain it.\nThe present does not stay.\nDon’t try to touch it.\n\nFrom moment to moment.\nThe future has not come;\nDon’t think about it\nBeforehand.\n\nWhatever comes to the eye,\nLeave it be.\nThere are no commandments\nTo be kept;\nThere’s no filth to be cleansed.\n\nWith empty mind really\nPenetrated, the dharmas\nHave no life.\n\nWhen you can be like this,\nYou’ve completed\nThe ultimate attainment.\nLayman P’ang (740-808)
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What the fetchin heck?\nOh my F'in G\nKiss my tiara.\nGonna jam up your opera.\nPianist Envy.\nQueen Be-atch.\nEqual Opportunity Annoyer\n\nGood lines:\n"I am nobody\nNobody is perfect\nTherefore, I must be perfect!"\n\n“When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.”\n\nMy favorite bumper sticker:\n“Push, pass or get off my ass.”\nToo crude for my wife, so I made one that says:\n“Pass, Push or get off my Tush.”
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Here is a possible answer:\nhttp://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/6/messages/952.html
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There are many!  Check out this web site and see if you find the one you have in mind http://tacomaweekly.tripod.com/Irish-Quotations.html
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Boy, that is a good one to bring back memories. It was one of my father's less obnoxious expressions. I now wonder how it got started in the first place. He used it in a situation like, I would say, "I am going to the movies tonight." He would answer,yelling "In a pig's eye!" "Your staying home and cleaning the cellar!!"   He was not the best father and this was one more way he would endear himself to me. So I guess it means NO WAY,  CAN'T HAPPEN, NOT LIKELY
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sounds like something my youngin said when he was a baby...maybe toe stumped, lol
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The oldest form seems to have been spann-nyr, which is Old Norse for a fresh chip of wood, one just carved from timber by the woodman’s axe, so the very epitome of something new. (Nyr is our modern new, while spann is a chip, the source of our spoon, an implement that was originally always made from wood, so that wooden spoon is a retronym.) By about 1300 the Old Norse phrase had started to appear in English in the form span-new, a form that lasted into the nineteenth century.\n\nThis evolved by the sixteenth century into an elaborated form similar to the modern one: spick and span new, still with the old sense of something so new as to be pristine and unused. Spick here is a nail or spike. This form seems to have been inspired by a Dutch expression, spiksplinternieuw, which referred to a ship that was freshly built, so with all-new nails and timber. It is first found in Sir Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives in 1579, “They were all in goodly gilt armours, and brave purple cassocks apon [upon] them, spicke, and spanne newe.”\n\nBy the middle of the following century, it had been shortened to our modern spick and span. It had also shifted sense to our current one, for something so neat and clean that it looks new and unused. Samuel Pepys is the first recorded user, in his diary for 15 November 1665: “My Lady Batten walking through the dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes.”
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http://www.ronfry.com/lyrics/OldFriend.txt
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Well, old people means old times, and now, we are young and it means young times.\n\nOld people have had a different idea of how the world and culture works, because in their times, they were very diferent, we all know how the world has changed in terms of ideas and culture, all the good life we have now. So, old people might be angry that the world is changing so bad, when they talk to people that are enjoying the good life, just get angry. I guess
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It is a Funny Quotes or you can say One-liner thought.\ni think it is by "Fossel"
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re phrase question please.
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Giggle,   when  I  was  a lot younger   a  close  friend of  my mother's   one time, at the peak of   frustration over  her   unruly hair  declared  "I look  as if I'd been pulled backwards through a hedge"       I  was only about 12  at the time,  but I thought that  was  so funny   it  somehow got hardwired into my brain  and   I've often used it myself.\n                                               I  guess you could   say something like ,,"Every Saturday   morning,   I would lounge  around   the house in my pyjamas,  with my hair  looking  as if I'd been  dragged backwards  through a hedge"       It's  an  expression that nobody else  will be likely to use  because no-one could possibly have thought of it, since it comes  from  a past  age.   But it's  still pretty darn  descriptive, when you think about it .
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You're lucky I love this book and it's sitting next to me...\n\nAtticus: "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you see things from his point of view--"\nScout: "Sir?"\nAtticus: "--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."\n\n\nThe two answerers above me- did you ever consider this is a high school student that can't figure it out?  Perhaps they are being lazy or perhaps they just don't know which quote is correct.  Don't answer the question if you're just going to be a jerk.
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