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Bookmark or Share- "It's all downhill from here"—meaning and etymologyAlthough it would seem that going down a hill is easier than going up, downhill has meant a decline since the 1500s, although Daniel Defoe also used it in the sense of easy ("a very short cut, and all down hill," Robinson Crusoe, 1719). An 1856 history of England had the sense of declining: "The monks had traveled swiftly on the downhill road ...
- What is the origin of the phrase "A Mountain I'm Willing to Die On"?Although the heavily fortified Hill 937 was of little strategic value, U.S. command ordered its capture by a frontal assault. The hill was finally taken at the cost of 72 Americans killed and 372 wounded. Losses on the North Vietnamese side are estimated at more than 630 dead.
- Religious affiliation of members of 117th CongressAR 2 French Hill R Continuing Catholic AR 3 Steve Womack R Continuing Baptist AR 4 Bruce Westerman R Continuing Baptist AR Senator Tom Cotton R Continuing Methodist AR Senator John Boozman R Continuing Baptist AZ 1 Tom O'Halleran D Continuing Catholic AZ 2 Ann Kirkpatrick D Continuing Catholic AZ 3 Raul M. Grijalva D Continuing Catholic
- Trail camera stolen Auburn Hill Bald Mountain areaI see this guy walk into the camera view and it look suspicious as he look the other way but then 5 minutes later the camera went offline, went to check and the camera was stolen so for those who has camera in the Auburn Hills Bald mountain area please watch out for him.
- Use of "hill to die on" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange[Noun phrase]: hill to die on (plural hills to die on) (idiomatic usage): An issue to pursue with wholehearted conviction and/or single-minded focus, with little or no regard to the cost. Etymology: an allusion to the military practice of capturing/holding a hill (high ground), no matter the cost or (lack of) benefit, as in the Battle of ...
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