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" The Parisians, though, was not published until 1872, while William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Pendennis ( 1850 ) uses the phrase ironically, implying it was already established.
Medieval Greek is a cover phrase for a whole continuum of different speech and writing styles, ranging from vernacular continuations of spoken Koine that were already approaching Modern Greek in many respects, to highly learned forms imitating classical Attic.
Plischke wrote a 1997 account of visiting Kennedy at the White House weeks before the trip to help compose the speech and teach him the proper pronunciation ; she also claims that the phrase had been translated stateside already by the translator scheduled to accompany him on the trip (" a rather unpleasant man who complained bitterly that he had had to interrupt his vacation just to watch the President ’ s mannerisms ").
" It has no basis in historical fact and Shakespeare's use of Latin here is not from any assertion that Caesar would have been using the language, rather than the Greek reported by Suetonius, but because the phrase was already popular when the play was written.
Twenty times on the original Star Trek, McCoy declares someone or something deceased with the line, " He's dead ", " He's dead, Jim ", or something similar ; the phrase is considered a catchphrase of the character, although actor Kelley disliked repeating such lines, and refused to say it on The Wrath of Khan when Spock is near death ; James Doohan as Montgomery Scott says " He's dead already " instead.
Therefore, if the audience is not already familiar with the phrase used in the punch line, or is not aware of the multiple meanings of the words in the phrase, the surprise ending of the joke cannot be recovered by explaining the joke to the audience.
At the time of the Great Depression ( of the 1930s ), the phrase " The Great Depression " had already been used to refer to the period 1873 – 96 ( in the United Kingdom ), or more narrowly 1873 – 79 ( in the United States ), which has since been renamed the Long Depression.
H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler, in The King's English state that the term nom de plume " evolved " in Britain, where people wanting a " literary " phrase, failed to understand the term nom de guerre, which already existed in French.
Morganatic, already in use in English by 1727 ( according to the Oxford English Dictionary ), is derived from the medieval Latin morganaticus from the Late Latin phrase matrimonium ad morganaticam and refers to the gift given by the groom to the bride on the morning after the wedding, morning gift, i. e. dower.
As fiercely anti-Communist as they were anti-Semitic, Kennedy and Astor looked upon Adolf Hitler as a welcome solution to both of these " world problems " ( Nancy's phrase ).... Kennedy replied that he expected the " Jew media " in the United States to become a problem, that " Jewish pundits in New York and Los Angeles " were already making noises contrived to " set a match to the fuse of the world.
RCA raised objections to the phrase " up against the wall, motherfucker " in the lyrics of Kantner's " We Can Be Together ," but the group managed to prevent it from being censored on the album, pointing out that RCA had already allowed the offending word to be included on the cast album of the rock musical Hair.
In the academic field, physicist Murray Gell-Mann named a type of subatomic particle as a quark, after the phrase " Three quarks for Muster Mark " on page 383 of Finnegans Wake, as he already had the sound " kwork ".
The phrase has been attributed to the radio disc jockey Gus Gossert but Gossert himself said that " doo-wop ( p ) was already being used me to categorize the music in California.
" The flying, fickle finger of fate " was already a familiar catchphrase on the show ( Dan Rowan would use the phrase when ushering " new talent " like Tiny Tim on stage ).
So at least by the end of 18th century the phrase was already in use in military slang for a group of recruits who seemed incapable of understanding discipline or not yet sufficiently trained or disciplined to properly carry out their duties.
The winner was Upset, whose name is sometimes erroneously thought to have popularized a new phrase in sports ( meaning an underdog beating the favorite )-in fact, the term " upset " was already in use to describe such a situation decades before.
The phrase " sea shanty " carries a similar redundancy as the phrases " ATM machine " or " chai tea ", in that the word " shanty " alone already conveys the meaning of a sea-related work song.
This usage existed already at the time of the third ecumenical council, held at Ephesus in 431, at which the phrase " our most holy and blessed pope Cœlestine, bishop of the Apostolic See " was used.
* " Already Been Vaporized " is phrase that refers to Marijuana that has already been heated in a vaporizer, and has some concentration of THC left.
The 51st state, in United States political discourse, is a phrase that refers to areas either seriously or derisively considered candidates for addition to the 50 states already part of the United States.
They can do it immediately when they already know the lower phrase.
The phrase " first, catch your hare ", while popularly thought to originate here, was already proverbial when the book was written.
Thus even where no phrase in local language which exactly translates " oral literature " is used, what constitutes " oral literature " as understood today is already understood to be part or all of the lore media with which a society conducts profound and common cultural affairs among its members, orally.

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An urban legend has it that the phrase refers to an old English law under which a man could legally beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb ( though no such law ever existed ).
While small test programs existed since the development of programmable computers, the tradition of using the phrase " Hello, world!
The related phrase status quo ante, literally " the state in which before ", means " the state of affairs that existed previously ".
He popularised the phrase " sexual apartheid " to described the separate, different laws that long existed for gays and heterosexuals.
Thus, the phrase His Majesty's Loyal Opposition existed in some Commonwealth realms even before the title of prime minister.
This phrase is interpreted by many Christians to mean that Jesus existed from eternity ( as the second person of the Trinity ), and will exist eternally.
Another story defended locally is that the name derived from the corruption of the phrase " Água do Paúl " ( pául being a term for swamp or bog ), which itself referred to the " Ribeira do Paúl ", an old ravine that existed in the area behind the older parochial church of Nossa Senhora dos Anjos.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was also an important influence ; Cone describes King as a liberation theologian before the phrase existed.

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It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.
And many advertisers have been happy with the results of letting a Negro disc jockey phrase the commercial in his own words, working only from a fact sheet.
" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.
An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.
Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase.
The program or server carries out an exhaustive search of a database of words, to produce a list containing every possible combination of words or phrases from the input word or phrase.
Some think that the " Pay Lay Ale " sentence is derived from the Hebrew phrase " pe le-El ", פה לאל ' mouth to God '.
The Piano Sonata is an example — the whole composition is derived from the work's opening quartal gesture and its opening phrase.
) is a Latin phrase meaning " from the founding of the City ( Rome )", traditionally dated to 753 BC.
His comment on Numbers 23: 19 has a still more polemical tone: “ God is not a man that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent ; < font face =" times new roman " size = 3 > if a man says: ‘ I am a god ’ he is a liar ; if he says: ‘ I am a son of man ’ he will have cause to regret it ; and if he says, ‘ I will go up to heaven ’ he has said but will not keep his word ” last phrase is borrowed from B ' midbar 23: 19 ( Yer.
However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.
The phrase does not come from association with Black's Law Dictionary, which was first published in 1891.
The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).
* The etymology of the term " blade runner " is revealed to come from the German phrase bleib ruhig, meaning " remain calm.
* Court History of David or Succession narrative ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ): a " historical novel ", in Alberto Soggin's phrase, telling the story of David's reign from his affair with Bathsheba to his death.
The phrase Great White Way has been attributed to Shep Friedman, columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph in 1901, who lifted the term from the title of a book about the Arctic by Albert Paine.
The quotation from the Gospel of John has raised some questions about the meaning and authenticity of the phrase " born again ".
β Capricorni's traditional name comes from the Arabic phrase for " the lucky stars of the slaughterer ".
The modern Turkish name İstanbul derives from the Greek phrase eis tin polin ( εις την πόλιν ), meaning " in the City " or " to the City ".
The original phrase " chariot ( s ) of fire " is from 2 Kings 2: 11 and 6: 17 in the Bible.
In 1973, the students from Dabney House protested a presidential visit with a sign on the library bearing the simple phrase " Impeach Nixon ".
Most denominations ( a notable exception being the Seventh Day Adventists ) would affirm the statement from the Catechism of the Catholic Church ( above ), with the exception of the parenthetical phrase, " through a purification or immediately.

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