- context. For example, "lead foot" may
describe a fast driver; lead is
proverbially heavy, and a foot
exerting more
pressure on the
accelerator causes a...
-
provide further children. She
successfully set
about restoring order in
proverbially restless Aquitaine, and
continued in her
royal duties as
Angevin queen...
-
means that more "trips to the bank" are
necessary to make withdrawals,
proverbially wearing out the "shoe leather" with each trip. Menu cost With high inflation...
-
world and
there abide... The
whirling dance or Sufi
whirling that is
proverbially ****ociated with
dervishes is best
known in the West by the practices...
-
greatest dramatic intensity in a book
musical are
often performed in song.
Proverbially, "when the
emotion becomes too
strong for speech, you sing; when it becomes...
-
tears shed by
Pamphilus at the
funeral of Chrysis, it came to be used
proverbially in the
works of
later authors, such as
Horace (Epistulae 1.XIX:41). hinc...
- Düsseldorf's
entertainment district with
hundreds of pubs and restaurants, and
proverbially known by
Germans as "the
longest bar in the world". Düsseldorf-Hafen;...
-
phase of the moon. In 1552,
Richard Huloet wrote: Hony mone, a term
proverbially applied to such as be
newly married,
which will not fall out at the first...
-
unprecedented act,
given that
until that
moment Italian politicians were
proverbially serious and formal.
Benigni was
censored again in the 1980s for calling...
- they had
saved the
Roman empire from a
British invasion.
Brittany was
proverbially wealthy throughout much of its history: it
prospered from
trade before...
