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 Post subject: Re: I love these lids!
PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 10:02 pm 
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Emilie wrote:
Okay so not to totally beat a dead horse (what a weird expression), ...


Welcome to English Language Corner (cue music).

Not so much weird as waaaaay outdated. It's a metaphor for whipping a horse to try to get it to go further, when the horse is already dead; the original expression was "flogging a dead horse", and is widely attributed to English parlimentarian John Bight, whose failed re-election campaign in 1859 was reported in the broadsheets thusly:

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"It was notorious that Mr.Bright was dissatisfied with his winter reform campaign and rumor said that he
had given up his effort with the exclamation that it was like flogging a dead horse."


This was a favorite expression of his, which he used again in parliament to refer to failure to get the body to move to a vote on a bill. From there, it entered the lexicon.

This has been English Language Corner. Join us next week, when we explore the phrase "Cat got your tongue" with visual aids. Until then!

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 3:23 pm 
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That's a good idea about the plastic wrap, Darcie. I still use the plain white ones for jars inside my cabinets and will add that to some of them. But it's still taking major self control not to buy any more of the iLids right now. And I can definitively say that the vanilla in a jar was a brilliant thought (I'm obviously savoring it, as I'm very rarely an outside-the-box thinker). I've baked a good bit since then and it's fabulous just opening up the jar and putting the spoon down in it.

Clearly I'm very far gone when it comes to stuff like this but maybe it's a good thing that something so simple can give one such happiness? :roll:

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 8:30 pm 
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Emilie,

If those lids give you happiness, that's pretty cheap.

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