Other references in classical literature include the belief that upon death the otherwise silent Mute Swan would sing beautifully-hence the phrase swan song ; as well as Juvenal's sarcastic reference to a good woman being a " rare bird, as rare on earth as a black swan ", from which we get the Latin phrase rara avis, rare bird.

The phrase is believed to come from the end-of-episode situation in adventure silent films of the early 1900s, with the protagonist literally left hanging from the edge of a cliff, although the oldest usage the Oxford English Dictionary has is from 1937.

In 1902, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan employed this sense of the phrase, saying in a speech that " great captains on both sides of our Civil War have long ago passed over to the silent majority, leaving the memory of their splendid courage.

In May 1831, the phrase " silent majority " was spoken by Churchill C. Cambreleng, representative of New York state, before 400 members of the Tammany Society.

The silent majority theme has been a contentious issue amongst journalists since Nixon used the phrase.

: Several allusions in other works establish a terminal date of composition: Ben Jonson's Epicœne, or The silent woman, composed in late 1609, mocks a peculiar phrase in the play, and Phantasma ( registered 6 February 1609 ), written by Robert Armin, a member of the King's Men from 1599 to 1610, contains a close literary parallel.

Traditionally, at the end of the silent march that closes the carnival the " General " says goodbye to everyone with the traditional phrase " See you next Fat Thursday at 1 p. m ."

The phrase refers to an ancient belief that the Mute Swan ( Cygnus olor ) is completely silent during its lifetime until the moment just before death, when it sings one beautiful song.

The phrase gained further currency after William Manchester's comment that members of this generation were " withdrawn, cautious, unimaginative, indifferent, unadventurous and silent.

" has become a household phrase and Momo makes many friends, especially an honest, silent street-cleaner, Beppo, and a poetic, extroverted tour guide, Guido.

The silent holocaust is a phrase that is used to refer to several unrelated

The phrase silent mutation is often used interchangeably with the phrase synonymous mutation ; however, synonymous mutations are a subcategory of the former, occurring only within exons.

In the 1922 Harold Lloyd silent film Dr. Jack C. Norman Hammond uses the phrase " a four-flusher " to describe the doctor in charge of " The Sick-Little-Well-Girl " in the city.

In 1929, March moved to Hollywood to provide additional dialogue for the film Journey's End and, more famously, to turn the silent version of Howard Hughes ' classic Hell's Angels into a talkie — a rewrite that brought the phrase " Excuse me while I put on something more comfortable " into the American lexicon.

: The phrase is cautiously used at the funeral of T. E. Lawrence, officiated at St Paul's Cathedral ; two men, a clergyman and a soldier, Colonel Brighton, are observing a bust of the dead “ Lawrence of Arabia ”, and commune in silent mourning.

The phrase originated from early silent films.

* The Addams Family: The logo was silent, but in some episodes the phrase was said in a deep baritone voice by Ted Cassidy, but he did not say it in his usual “ Lurch ” voice.

The early part of the refutation of the opposition's arguments ( refutatio ), contains the first known exposition of the phrase silent enim leges inter arma (" in times of war, the laws fall silent ").

Inter arma enim silent leges is a Latin phrase meaning " For among of arms, the laws fall mute ," although it is more popularly rendered as " In times of war, the law falls silent.

The parts set in the 1890s have no sound, silent film intertitle cards ( except, of course, for Rod Serling saying " Mr. Mulligan, a rather dour critic of his times is shortly to discover the import of that old phrase ' Out of the frying pan, into the fire '.

The phrase was derived from Sturgeon's observation that while science fiction was often derided for its low quality by critics, it could be noted that the majority of examples of works in other fields could equally be seen to be of low quality and that science fiction was thus no different in that regard to other art.

The phrase had been in use for much of the 19th century to refer to the dead — the number of living people is less than the number who have died, so the dead are the majority in that sense.

Writing for the Court majority in Wesberry, Justice Black argued that a reading of the debates of the Constitutional Convention demonstrated conclusively that the Framers had meant, in using the phrase “ by the People ,” to guarantee equality of representation in the election of Members of the House of Representatives.

However, the majority of classical rabbis believed that the biblical phrase hallow the fiftieth year, together with the biblical promise that there would be three years worth of fruit in the sixth year, implies that the jubilee year was the 50th year.

The word " resistance ", though decidedly less dramatic, retains the alliterative character of the earlier phrase and is generally preferred by the majority of contemporary academic historians, as it more accurately describes the particulars of the political situation at the time.

The term Welfare state is used to describe a state in which the government provides the majority of Welfare services ; the phrase also describes those services collectively.

-Justice Scalia's majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, rejecting the notion that the phrase " bear arms " was used as an idiom in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. 554 U. S. ____ ( 2008 ), slip op.

The phrase " tyranny of the majority " ( or " tyranny of the masses "), used in discussing systems of democracy and majority rule, envisions a scenario in which decisions made by a majority place its interests so far above those of an individual or minority group as to constitute active oppression, comparable to that of tyrants and despots.

The phrase " tyranny of the majority " was used by John Adams in 1788.

The majority of songs are iterative with each phrase repeated once, though occasional songs with multiple repetitions are found.

The phrase ' to sue one's livery ' refers to the formal recognition of a noble's majority, in exchange of payment, for conferring the powers attached to his title, and thereby freeing him from dependence as a ward.

However, the majority of the debate in the United States involves the second sense of the phrase.

Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts uses the phrase disparagingly in his majority opinion concerning the government's assertion that it will selectively prosecute animal cruelty videos based on their own interpretation of The First Amendment in United States v. Stevens.

The Supreme Court's majority ruled that this phrase referred to being required to obey U. S. law ; on this basis, they interpreted the language of the Fourteenth Amendment in a way that granted U. S. citizenship to almost all children born on American soil ( a concept known as jus soli ).

In the 1927 US Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes closed the 8-1 majority opinion upholding the sterilization of Carrie Buck, with the phrase, " Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

First, his speech, and the phrase, " the great questions of time will not be resolved by speeches and majority decisions ", is often interpreted as a repudiation of the political process, a repudiation that Bismarck did not himself advocate.

Although Sorensen played an important part in the composition of the Inaugural Address, " the speech and its famous turn of phrase that everyone remembers was ," Sorensen firmly states ( counter to what the majority of authors, journalists and other media sources have claimed ), " written by Kennedy himself.

In cluttered speech, the person ’ s speech is affected by one or more of the following: ( 1 ) failure to maintain normally expected sound, syllable, phrase, and pausing patterns ; ( 2 ) evidence of greater than expected incidents of disfluency, the majority of which are unlike those typical of people who stutter.

In the Sarawak case of Stephen Kalong Ningkan v. Tun Abang Haji Openg, decided on provisions similar to those in the Singapore Constitution, the court found that the phrase ceased to command the confidence of a majority of the Members of Parliament was a term of art which had to be signified by a formal vote of no confidence taken by the legislature.

In mathematics, the phrase " almost all " has a number of specialised uses.

Agathon's extraordinary physical beauty is brought up repeatedly in the sources ; the historian W. Rhys Roberts observes that " ὁ καλός Ἀγάθων ( ho kalos Agathon ) has become almost a stereotyped phrase.

The phrase " all quiet on the Western Front " has become a colloquial expression meaning stagnation, or lack of visible change, in any context.

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.

The anthropic principle has given rise to some confusion and controversy, partly because the phrase has been applied to several distinct ideas.

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.

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four the phrase " Big Brother " has come into common use to describe any prying or overly-controlling authority figure, and attempts by government to increase surveillance.

The essence of Deuteronomistic theology is that Israel has entered into a covenant ( a treaty, a binding agreement ) with the god Yahweh, under which they agree to accept Yahweh as their god ( hence the phrase " god of Israel ") and Yahweh promises them a land where they can live in peace and prosperity.

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.

Although prior to the catastrophic collapse of the towers, the phrase " a good day to bury bad news " ( not actually used by Moore ) has since been used to refer to other instances of attempting to hide one item of news behind a more publicised issue.

The quotation from the Gospel of John has raised some questions about the meaning and authenticity of the phrase " born again ".

Occasionally a code word achieves an independent existence ( and meaning ) while the original equivalent phrase is forgotten or at least no longer has the precise meaning attributed to the code word.

The phrase has been used to mean giving actual or figurative support or aid to someone in a situation or project, i. e. to " watch their back ".

One detail has been added to the inside of the collar: the phrase " Keep Pounding ", in honor of the late Panthers player and coach Sam Mills.

Libertarianism has been used in modern times as a substitute for the phrase " neo-classical liberalism ", leading to some confusion.

In morphology and syntax, a clitic is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase.

Due to the possibility of confusion between the use of the word " cytosol " to refer to both extracts of cells and the soluble part of the cytoplasm in intact cells, the phrase " aqueous cytoplasm " has been used to describe the liquid contents of the cytoplasm of living cells.

The phrase pariter cum Scottis in the Latin text of the Chronicle has been translated in several ways.

Controversy in matters of theology has traditionally been particularly heated, giving rise to the phrase odium theologicum.

The phrase has come to mean any injury, damage or harm ( physical or otherwise ) caused to a third party due to the action of belligerents.

The US Army has published military phrase books in Esperanto, to be used in war games by mock enemy forces.

The nominalist approach is to argue that certain noun phrases can be " eliminated " by rewriting a sentence in a form that has the same meaning, but does not contain the noun phrase.

Thus Ockham argued that " Socrates has wisdom ", which apparently asserts the existence of a reference for " wisdom ", can be rewritten as " Socrates is wise ", which contains only the referring phrase " Socrates ".