“Monday is a Heavy Day”
Means the failure of the case, which began on Monday, the reluctance to do anything that day.
Monday, on superstitious ideas, - black, hard day. On this day, particularly superstitious people did not start the business or any serious work. There is a belief of the day, based on the fact that, according to the Bible, God created the world, after five of the six days of Creation, saying: "And it was good." Only after the second day - Monday - in the Bible, this phrase does not.
On Cloud Nine...it was believed that clouds existed in layes of nine, anyone super happy was said to be soaring in the clouds.. or madly in Love.
Six of one, a half dozen of another.... Meant to say that certain things stay the same no matter how you see it.
He has cut off his nose to spite his face..... Meant to say if one person does something mean or spiteful to another, he ends up worse off than the other person.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
Meaning
Great things may come from small beginnings.
Origin
The word acorn doesn't come from 'oak' and 'corn', as is popularly supposed, but from the Old English 'aecern', meaning berry or fruit. The tree genus Acer comes from the same root.
Before oaks were mighty they were first either great, tall, sturdy or even just big.
"Money does not smell”.
The utterance belongs to the Roman Emperor Vespasian, who imposed a tax on public toilets. When his son reproached him for such an “obscene” collection, the Emperor raised the money brought from this tax to the son’s nose and asked him whether they smell. “No”, answered the son.
This saying became popular in Russia now among those who received their money by crime business.
"Rub Wrong Way ",
Anyone who is irritated by words or actions,
Goes back to colonial times when servents had dry rub floors with grain of wood,and if they rubed them wrong way it left a streak.
1. An ax to grind....you are angry with a person
2. An apple never falls far from the tree....one is similar to their parents
3. Am I talking to a brick wall? Person is not listening to what you are saying.
4. Once in a blue moon....not very often.
posted by WAnne
over 2 years ago
This is one I just remembered too.
"He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones......Those who are vulnerable should not attack others."
posted by WAnne
over 2 years ago
Yet another one :
" A rolling stone gathers no moss."-----------A person who does not settle down is not attached to anything or anyone. Also means a settled person is more successful/properous than one who is not.
posted by WAnne
over 2 years ago
Meaning
Carry on with what you are doing - it will give me an excuse to behave badly.
Origin
This line was made famous by the Clint Eastwood character Inspector (Dirty) Harry Callahan in the 1983 film Sudden Impact - the fourth film of the Dirty Harry series. Callahan encouraged felons to commit crimes so that he would have an excuse to shoot them. In Sudden Impact he dares a crook to shoot his hostage with the line "Go on punk, make my day".
