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
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.