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Lobby card for the 1930 movie – The Big House big house. Main article: Prison. Prison [28] big one Death [29] big shot Someone of importance and influence; Big boss; see big cheese [30] big six From auto advertising, for the new and powerful six cylinder engines inferring a Strong man e.g. Go send our big six to collect the money [28] big ...
Various nicknames are featured on a wall at John F. Kennedy International Airport.. The Big Apple – first published as a euphemism for New York City in 1921 by sportswriter John J. Fitz Gerald, who claimed he had heard it used the year prior by two stable hands at the New Orleans Fair Grounds because of the large prizes available at horse races in New York. [3]
This is a list of catchphrases found in American and British english language television and film, where a catchphrase is a short phrase or expression that has gained usage beyond its initial scope.
The only way to understand a woman is to love her; The old wooden spoon beats me down; The only way to find a friend is to be one; The pen is mightier than the sword; The pot calling the kettle black; The proof of the pudding is in the eating; The rich get richer and the poor get poorer; The road to Hell is paved with good intentions
The New York Times’s signature election needle may not be available to the public as results come in Tuesday night amid an ongoing strike by the outlet’s technology staff, the paper’s ...
@NYT_first_said similarly tweets out single words at a time, scanning hourly what The New Yorker assessed in 2023 to be 240,000 words each weekday and 140,000 each weekend day to find newly published words that mark that word's first appearance in the Times ' digital archives, which go back to 1851.
I was shown to my room, which wasn’t fancy but was clean and quiet and beachy. After unpacking the few garments in my bag, I did exactly what I went there to do: I took off my clothes. All of them.
"Defeat the New Deal and Its Reckless Spending" – 1936 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Alfred M. Landon "Let's Get Another Deck" – 1936 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Alfred M. Landon, using a card game metaphor to answer the "new deal" cards metaphor of Franklin D. Roosevelt