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The song was one of a series of comic novelty songs set in "exotic" locations, one of the earliest and most famous being "Oh By Jingo!" The verses of "Ice Cream" talk of a fictional college in "the land of ice and snow, up among the Eskimo", the college cheer being the chorus of the song "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream".
Zimmer reacted to Mason by stating: "the 'having' part of the idiom seems to me to imply possession over a long period of time, rather than the transient cake-having that occurs during cake-eating". He concludes that it is ultimately not relevant to ponder over the logicality of crystallized, commonly used phrases.
In political jargon, a self-licking ice cream cone is a self-perpetuating system that has no purpose other than to sustain itself. The phrase appeared to have been first used in 1991–1992, in a book about Gulf War weapons systems by Norman Friedman, [1] and On Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones, a paper by Pete Worden about NASA's bureaucracy, to describe the relationship between the Space Shuttle ...
As you likely know by now, Travis Kelce will be vying for his fourth Super Bowl win with the Kansas City Chiefs on February 9. You’re probably also aware that he’s dating 14-time Grammy winner ...
Vanilla ice cream may be a safe option, but all the magnificent ways you can dress it up are far from bland. Discover 11 unexpected toppings for vanilla ice cream that work surprisingly well.
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
sun cream sunscreen [160] suck it and see to undertake a course of action without knowing its full consequences (US: "take your chances") supply teacher a school employee who teaches students when their usual instructor is absent. (US: substitute teacher) suss [out] * (informal) to figure out (from suspicion) suspender belt
Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.