For example, the phrase " I dreamt about blue angels last night " meant " I was visited by the police last night ".

In Luke 12: 38, the phrase " second or third watch of the night " employed in the NIV is changed to " middle of the night or toward daybreak " in the TNIV.

The phrase " bride-cup " was also sometimes used of the bowl of spiced wine prepared at night for the bridal couple.

There is also a legendary droit du seigneur (" the lord's right ", often conflated with the Latin phrase " ius primae noctis ") which alleged entitled the lord of an estate to take the virginity of the estate's virgins on the night of their marriage, a right which the lord can trade for money.

No one in the audience knew of the death until after the show when Bud Abbott explained the events of the day, and how the phrase " The show must go on " had been epitomized by Lou that night.

Fearful Symmetry is a phrase from William Blake's poem The Tyger ( Tyger, tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?).

Skip Caray grew up in baseball as the son of Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Caray, who would routinely refer to his son at 8: 30pm during every broadcast by saying, " Good night, Skippy ," a phrase for which Skip was teased throughout his adolescence.

As night falls, Picard fails to make a fire and Captain Dathon shares his fire with the phrase " Temba, his arms wide ".

The phrase was " told to by an elderly dope fiend on a rainy night in Hong Kong near the end of the War in Vietnam ".

The phrase " Three dog night " meaning it is so cold you would need three dogs in bed with you to keep warm, originated with the Chukchi people of Siberia who kept the Siberian Husky landrace dog that became the modern purebred breed of Siberian Husky.

* In Acts 20: 7, the New English Bible renders the phrase literally meaning “ first day of the week ” as “ Saturday night ”.

The phrase Saturday night special is pejorative slang used in the United States and Canada for any inexpensive handgun.

During Fox's broadcast of the 2002 World Series, Joe Buck paid implicit tribute to his father, who had died only a few months earlier ( he had read the eulogy at his father's funeral ), by calling the final out of Game 6 ( which tied the series at 3 – 3, and thus ensured there would be a Game 7 broadcast the next night ) with the phrase, " We'll see you tomorrow night.

However, Hanley still remains the main name in usage for this town ; particularly in popular parlance, where the phrase " Up ' Anley, duck " is a common local phrase describing going either shopping or for a night out ; Hanley being the most common place people go to for these things.

Bellamy first gained national notoriety on HBO's Russell Simmons ' Def Comedy Jam, where he is credited for creating or uttering before a televised audience, the phrase " booty call ", described as a late night call to a potential paramour with the intention of meeting strictly for sex.

In an episode of Friends, Chandler Bing ( Matthew Perry ) mocked the ubiquitous NBC commercials that popularized the phrase (" A very special Blossom "); Perry himself appeared in " a very special episode " of Growing Pains earlier in his career, playing Carol Seaver's teenage boyfriend who dies of injuries sustained in a car accident after a night of underage drinking.

Sunday night began at 9PM PST ( to Midnight ), a theme show called " Theme of Consciousness ", where Ladd played listeners ' requests for songs based on a single word or phrase, such as " Colors ", " Fire ", " Dance ", etc.

At one late night meeting, planning a speech Barton was to give in the Sydney suburb of Ashfield, Barton coined the phrase " For the first time, we have a nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation "; Garran recalled that the now famous phrase " would have been unrecorded if I had not happened to jot it down.

In a 2006 interview, he tried to explain by pointing to a well-known phrase in English -- the line at the end of Shakespeare's Hamlet: " Good night, sweet Prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

A fourth view is the transformation of emotion, as in Housman's fine phrase on the arts: they `` transform and beautify our inner nature ''.

And although Schnabel's pianism bristles with excitement, it is meticulously faithful to Schubert's dynamic markings and phrase indications.

Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.

Kent and Story, the great early American scholars, repeatedly made use of this phrase, or of `` Christian nations '', which is a substantial equivalent.

It is a phrase as arresting as a magician's gesture, with a piquant turn of harmony giving an effect of strangeness.

there is no phrase or image that sounds like Hardy or that is striking enough to give individuality to the poem.

It is true of the rhythmic pattern in which the beat shifts continuously, or at least is continuously sprung, so that it becomes ambiguous enough to allow the pattern to be dominated by the long pulsations of the phrase or strophe.

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 ' ''.

) `` Quoting Mr. Kennan's phrase that anything would be better than a policy which led inevitably to nuclear war, he ( Toynbee ) says that anything is better than a policy which allows for the possibility of nuclear war ''.

What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.

His interpretation of the Pauline phrase is that we should seek the common good more than the private good, but this is because the common good is a more desirable good for the individual.

In English writing, the phrase " a modest proposal " is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

" Heath comments that " The last phrase is curious, but the meaning of it is obvious enough, as also the meaning of the phrase about ending " at one and the same number "( Heath 1908: 300 ).

Note that this premise uses the phrase " is not ", a form of " to be "; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon " to be " as such.

" 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.

The phrase " mad Arab ", sometimes with both words capitalized in Lovecraft's stories, is used so commonly before Alhazred's name that it almost constitutes a title.

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 Hebrew title is taken from the opening phrase Eleh ha-devarim, " These are the words ..."; the English title is from a Greek mis-translation of the Hebrew phrase mishneh ha-torah ha-zoth, " a copy of this law ", in, as to deuteronomion touto-" this second law ".

Instead, the phrase should be taken to say that the person is ( 1 ) defined only insofar as he or she acts and ( 2 ) that he or she is responsible for his or her actions.

However, there is some degree of debate regarding Clement's exact meaning of " spiritual gospel "; care must be taken not to ascribe to his phrase modern prejudices or expectations.

When taken in the context of Dowson's poem about " Cynara ", the phrase " gone with the wind " alludes to erotic loss.

This phrase is taken from Njáls saga and means " By law shall the land be built up ".

The phrase in the obituary " The body shall be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia " led the creation of the Ashes urn.

The phrase " Dei Verbum " is Latin for " Word of God " and is taken from the first line of the document, as is customary for titles of major Catholic documents.

" The phrase due process of law first appeared in a statutory rendition of Magna Carta in A. D. 1354 during the reign of Edward III of England, as follows: " No man of what state or condition he be, shall be put out of his lands or tenements nor taken, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without he be brought to answer by due process of law.

The phrase " tyranny of genre " comes from genre theorist Richard Coe, who wrote that " the ' tyranny of genre ' is normally taken to signify how generic structures constrain individual creativity " ( Coe 188 ).

It begins with the frequently quoted phrase " Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres ", sometimes quoted as " Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est ", meaning " Gaul, taken as a whole, is divided into three parts ".

A classic reference which has generally entered modern language is the concept that " Hope springs eternal " taken from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, the phrase reading " Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest :" Another popular reference, " Hope is the thing with feathers ," is from a poem by Emily Dickinson.

In the United States, Australia, and Canada, a more patient-centered approach is taken and this approach is usually what is meant by the phrase " informed consent.

The phrase is taken from a poem by Giosuè Carducci — the subject of which is not Umbria but rather a specific place in it, the source of the Clitunno river.

In another memorable moment, the 1986 " Enemies and Paranoia " episode used the word " Free " as a trigger phrase for red slime after the studio was taken over by Russian Communists.

" This same phrase could also be taken as " The weather is nice, don't you agree ?".

Similarly, his assertion that the phrase halacha le-Moshe me-Sinai-" an oral law revealed to Moses on Sinai "-does not always bear a literal meaning but often signifies a universally adopted custom, is not usually taken as a liberal interpretation.

" Astaire's remarkable ability to change the tempo within a single dance phrase is extensively featured throughout this routine and taken to extremes – as when he explodes into activity from a pose of complete quiet and vice versa.

The representation also depends on whether the noun or the determiner is taken to be the head of the phrase ( see the discussion of the DP hypothesis in the previous section ).

and the Talmud, the letter " b ", which in Hebrew means " in ," should be taken as a part of the word following, and the phrase would then be " unto the oak of Bitzanaim ," a place which has

The Bible uses the term ships of Tarshish to denote large ships intended for large voyages whatever their destination ; some Bible translations, including the NIV, go as far as to translate the phrase ship ( s ) of Tarshish as " trading ship ( s )," and Jonah's fleeing to Tarshish may need to be taken as " a place very far away " rather than a precise geographical term.

In some editions of Ovid's Metamorphoses, a phrase is taken as referring to the birth goddess Lucina and her counterpart collective, the Nixi.

Avalon also plays a role in non-Arthurian French literature, such as Li coronemenz Looïs ( in which appears the phrase por tot l ' or d ' Avalon " for all the gold of Avalon "), the stories of Holger Danske, who was taken there by Morgan le Fay in a medieval romance, and in the story of Melusine.