Meaning
You can not get things which are originally nor present.
Origin
Giovanni Torriano’s Second Alphabet, 1662:
“To go about to fetch bloud out of stones, viz. to attempt what is impossible.”
Meaning
Dorothy Parker used it and it means you can not force some one to do work as per your wishes.
Origin
This was used for derogatory humor sometimes.
Meaning
This phrase is used for people who need the hairs combed.
Origin
The Manitoba Morning Free Press, February 1910:
There are husbands who do their wives no credit. Before you have time to get your hat on and show them to an admiring world… they look as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.
Meaning
This was used by robbers who threatned the person to kill if he did not give all his money.
Origin
In 1835, the Pennsylvania newspaper had published this phrase:
A gentleman was stopped on Saturday night, by a footpad, with the customary salutation on such occasions – “Your money or your life.” Oh, replied the gentleman, don’t get in a passion, and you shall have all I have got; and drew a pistol, and shot the fellow down.
Meaning
TV ad to show that pepsodent is the best
Origin
A advertising slogan by Pepsodent toothpaste in 1960’s
Meaning
Used for people who are unpopular.
Origin
First reference comes from John Badcock’s Slang, 1823:
“Mud – a stupid twaddling fellow. ‘And his name is mud!’ ejaculated upon the conclusion of a silly oration, or of a leader in the Courier.”
Meaning
This means we are having the best of times.
Origin
In 1957 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made a speech in Bedford, UK in which he celebrated the success of Britain’s post-war economy and used this phrase.
Meaning
This means you cannot superimpose your will on others and the person or animal will do whatever he wishes to do.
Origin
In 1546 John Heywood’s used it:
“A man maie well bring a horse to the water, But he can not make him drinke without he will.”
Meaning
This phrase states the importance of healthy food and is used to convey the message that if you want to be healthy then eat nutritious food.
Origin
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, in Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante, 1826:
“Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.” [Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are].
In 1923 edition of the Bridgeport Telegraph:
“Ninety per cent of the diseases known to man are caused by cheap foodstuffs. You are what you eat.”
Meaning
Used for someone who is a coward.
Origin
It was used as a derogatory nick-name in 18th century.In 1787 Grose’s A provincial glossary lists it as:
“Yellow bellies. This is an appellation given to persons born in the Fens, who, it is jocularly said, have yellow bellies, like their eels.”