Meaning
When some one shows off his or her emotions openly we use this phrase.
Origin
Shakespeare’s Othello, 1604 had this phrase:
Iago:
It is sure as you are Roderigo,
Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:
In following him, I follow but myself;
Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,
But seeming so, for my peculiar end:
For when my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart
In compliment extern, ’tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
Meaning
It means saying irrelevant things to divert attention from main issue.
Origin
Stewart Chaplin’s story Stained glass political platform has this phrase:
“Why, weasel words are words that suck the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks the egg and leaves the shell.”
Meaning
This phrase is used when some one is very eager to participate.
Origin
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and the Damned, 1922 had the first reference of this phrase:
“All-ll-ll righty. I’ll be there with bells!”
Meaning
When someone says or write the same words as you do we say, he is doing it word by word.
Origin
In 1385 Chaucer used it in The Legend of Dido, a poem from Legend of Good Women:
I could folwe [follow] word for word Virgile.
Meaning
Without any obstruction.
Origin
Samuel Freeman used it in The Town Officer, 1799:
“Persons who wilfully let or hinder any sheriff or constable.”
Meaning
Used as a command to order that women and children should be given first priority..
Origin
It is believed to be first used in 18th century when a ship captain’s ordered all men to make way for women and children so that they can be safely dropped on shore.
Meaning
Used when somebody is under tremendous stress or is very sad.
Origin
The Bible, Job 10:15 (King James Version) had first reference:
Job 10:15: If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
Shakespeare also used it in Hamlet, 1603.