Meaning
This is a Ronald Reagan quotation and is used to motivate players
Origin
One story about its origin is that George Gipp fell ill and when dying he asked Rockne to promise that, when things were going badly for the team, he should inspire them by asking them to ‘win one for The Gipper’.
Meaning
This is used for someone who can be trusted or relied on to provide comfort and support.
Origin
This phrase was derived from The Book of Common Prayer in1549:
“O lorde… Bee vnto them a tower of strength.”
Later Shakespeare used it in Richard III in 1594:
‘The king’s name is a tower of strength.”
Meaning
This phrase is used to stress the fact that truth will ultimately be out.
Origin
This phrase was coined by Shakespeare and was used in The Merchant of Venice, 1600:
LAUNCELOT: Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of
the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his
own child. Well, old man, I will tell you news of
your son: give me your blessing: truth will come
to light; murder cannot be hid long; a man’s son
may, but at the length truth will out.
Meaning
It is used for an individual’s opinion.
Origin
in 1926 it was used for the first time. It has nothing to do with money, its actually used to imply once’s individual.
Meaning
This has become a marketing funda and it means its available all the time i.e. round the clock. 24hours in a day and 7 days in a week.
Origin
In 1983 edition of Sports Illustrated this was used for the first time as:
Jerry (Ice) Reynolds, one of the SEC’s two best freshmen by the end of last season, calls his jump shot ‘24-7-365′, because ‘It’s good 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year’.
Meaning
Used for jury.
Origin
This phrase is coined in the early 17th century. Thomas Randolph’s Poems: with The muses looking-glasse; and Amyntas, circa 1635:
“I had rather… haue his twelve Godvathers, good men and true, contemne him to the Gallowes.”
Meaning
It means responsibilities bring worries and tensions.
Origin
From Shakespeare’s Henry IV. Part II, 1597.
KING HENRY IV:
How many thousand of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee
And hush’d with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And lull’d with sound of sweetest melody?
O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch
A watch-case or a common ‘larum-bell?
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
Seal up the ship-boy’s eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude imperious surge
And in the visitation of the winds,
Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them
With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds,
That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Meaning
Totally exhausted
Origin
The Wisconsin Enquirer, April 1839:
“I reckoned to have got to the tavern by sundown, but I haven’t – as I’m prodigiously tuckered out.”
Meaning
When the situation changes so much that weaker becomes stronger and stronger becomes weak we use this phrase.
Origin
The first use was in Robert Sanderson’s XII sermons, 1634:
“Whosoever thou art that dost another wrong, do but turn the tables: imagine thy neighbour were now playing thy game, and thou his.”
See also: vice-versa.
Meaning
It means man is supreme of all creatures
Origin
From Shakespeare’s Hamlet, 1603:
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not
me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
you seem to say so.