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A figure of speech to illustrate the irreversibility of an action Personally I like "You can't unring that bell" as deadrat mentioned above The phrase refers to the fact that you can't un-hear a bell that has been rung There's a nice essay about its history here: Unring the Bell (impossibility of taking back a statement or action)
colloquialisms - Words are not sparrows; once they have flown they . . . The bell, once rung, cannot be unrung or You cannot unring the bell Google books traces "cannot be unrung" to 1924: what is learned or suspected outside of court may have some influence on the judicial decision It may be only a subtle or even subconscious influence, but a bell cannot be unrung Adverse claimants have at least some reason to fear By 1948 it is in the Utah bar
Whats a word for someone who doesnt believe in the ideas behind their . . . In your context, I'd call them a parrot parrot, noun, 2 A person regarded as resembling a parrot in some way, esp one who repeats the words or ideas of others mindlessly, mechanically, or without understanding (OED) 1581 J Bell tr W Haddon J Foxe Against Jerome Osorius ii 107 Speake out Parrotte, in what place doth Luther subuerte the dueties of vertue? 1671 E Howard Six Days
Underpants on the outside - English Language Usage Stack Exchange There is a bit of a history behind this The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell used the allegation by Alastair Campbell that he had observed (John) Major tucking his shirt into his underpants to caricature him wearing his pants outside his trousers, as a pale grey echo of both Superman and Supermac, a parody of Harold Macmillan Wikipedia ["Super-Mac" was from a 1958 cartoon image of Harold
phrase requests - Is there an idiomatic simile for as wrong as . . . "Ma Bell" was the personification of the Bell Telephone Company, which had a virtual monopoly on the telephone industry in much of the United States until the antitrust breakup of the system in 1982, so "as wrong as Ma Bell" would be an evocative simile for something huge and seemingly impervious to change
What exactly is Imma? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In 2010, linguist Neal Whitman wrote it's the Prime Time for "Imma" commenting on its use in pop lyrics In fact, this Imma (also spelled I'ma, I'mma, Ima, and I'm a) is not the contraction I'm followed by a, but a contraction of I'm gonna — which, of course, is a contraction of I'm going to, which is itself a contraction of I am going to The progression from I'm gonna to Imma involves two
What is the origin of the idiom with all the bells and whistles? The Phrase Finder has an interesting assumption: Another possibility is that the expression derived from the work of the English cartoonist and sculptor Rowland Emett He created cartoons and contraptions, in a similar eccentric and whimsical style to the earlier artist, William Heath Given that 'bells and whistles' appears to be an American phrase, the archetypally English Emett might seem