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Bookmark or Share- Origin of the idiom "If ifs and buts were candy and nuts"?Though by ifs and buts/ We're oft repelled,/ May we say that the nuts/ Are away being shelled! And from " We Australians ," in the [Charters Towers, Queensland] Northern Miner (January 29, 1940): We're a nation young, a nation small,/ Maybe perhaps you're right/ That distance makes our help a pall/ In England's present plight./
- What is the origin of the phrase “it warms the cockles of my heart”?Shelled; or perhaps cochleate, turbinated. [Cited occurrence:] Love's feeling is more soft and sensible,/ Than are the tender horns of cockled snails. Shakespeare. John Kersey, A New English Dictionary, fourth edition (1739) omits the entries for cochlea and cockle-stairs but adds an entry for hot-cockles: Hot-Cockles, a kind of Sport.
- Hard on the outside but soft on the inside (personality attribute)?From The Conversationist, Introvert or extrovert, normal or abnormal: the problem with personality types, by Nick Haslam (Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne), July 30, 2014:
- What is the origin of the phrase "A Mountain I'm Willing to Die On"?Like thousands of other hills in two world wars—in Africa, Italy, North-West Europe and Burma: hills to be clawed up by painful inches in the face of lashing fire and hails of hand grenades; to be captured and held; to be endlessly and backbreakingly dug and wired, for work on defensive positions was never finished; to be shelled off, overrun ...
- etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange1562 W. Turner Herball (1568) ii. 33 Thyrtye granes of Lentilles shelled. 1803 M. Cutler Let. 21 Jan. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 125 In bad weather, shell out your corn. Out (adverbial complement) indicating complete removal; away from the subject or object.
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