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History of have a good one - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The term "have a good day" was the phrase of the times Everyone used it, I had to hear it so many times during the course of the day that I nearly went mad with the boredom of the phrase So, after a while I started to return "Have a good day" with "Have A Good One" meaning have a good whatever got you off
What is the origin of the phrase Top of the morning to you? Here "the top of the morning" again means "the beginning of the day"—although it is not clear from the context whether this is synonymous with "dawn" or some other marker of the earliest hour of the day
Etymology of history and why the hi- prefix? That is why feminists, for example, rejected the word history and championed the notion of herstory during the 1970s, says Dictionary com’s Jane Solomon, “to point out the fact that history has mostly come from a male perspective ” The “his” in history has nothing, linguistically, to do with the pronoun referring to a male person
Whats the origin of the idiom dont give it the time of day? I Googled the phrase "time of day idiom" because I was particularly interested in the origin etymology of the "time of day" part I readily found the meaning (which I already knew), but was stymied as to its origin (which is what I wanted) Thus, I ask: what is the origin etymology of the idiom?
1st hour, 2nd hour, 3rd hour. . . But how to say zero-th hour? The case you gave is interesting, where it is an exception to the schedule for one day to have an additional hour before the hour labeled 'first' To call it 'zeroth' hour would be strange (perfectly recognizable and used by any math geek, but there it is) But then what is the hour that comes before that?
Where did Im Jonesing get its meaning from? The New Oxford American Dictionary has “Origin 1960’s: said to come from Jones Alley, in Manhattan, associated with drug addicts ” Some online sources dispute the claim and attribute it to Great Jones Street
What does the phrase “it’s like Groundhog Day every day” mean, and . . . “It’s like Groundhog Day every day,” Jamison admitted of their epic losing streak What does this mean? Yes, I’ve read up on and know what Groundhog Day literally is: a holiday that celebrates a quaint folk tradition of determining the seasons