Familiar Words And Phrases

"(nuil oíd u&" - Qenesls xt., 18. "lnm." - This word owes its orljfln to Joe Dun, an Engliah bnlllffla the relgn of Henry I. "Save mi' lYoin niy iriditis :ind 111 take cara "i tnj foes." - .M. Vallier, duriug tue ïvijrn of Louis XIV. "How re spplei swiin."- D. Mallet, Tybiirn : Whlle tumbitos down the tntbld sirwim l.i. m ínvi us. tu. iré ;i'iH's swini I ivilgeis tiiu." - OHinpoeii ni ¦ricasiin1- ni II. i]ic'" : a, evcry joy, lo dnmi on niv inillil, Bllt olí ! K-aVe llalli I bOM lirlllllil ! Wliat Miui;U Iny Wlnged DOlin of hllss liavu ImMMI Llke anyls' vlsits, fcw anl lar belwet-n. "Almlgbty dollar.'1 - Original with Washington Irrlng: "Tlie alrnighty doBar, tliat grut object of oaivantl derotUtn thrOUgboUt the I a ml, Id lia ve noilcvutecs in iliis peculiar vilUge." - The Creólo Villaje. 1 have lost all luit honor umi life." - Francli 1 , wfao wai Ukea arttonw at Um lanuMis iiaitle of Paria, Italv, February 21, L02S, by ('liarles V., iu a letter to his nidther, dctalllng his mlsfortane, wrote the the abovc familiar pillase "Barebonea Parllament.'' - A nickaaBM conferred apon tlie parliameul oonrened by Cromwell, Jaly 4, 1653. li wai coinposed oí one bnndred and tliirty-iunc persons who reMgned thelr aothorlty leeeinlier 12, 16S3; and il u as so callid lioin a leatlier seller nained Pmlee-Ood l'.arebone, who was one of the principie memliel-. "An ax to grind." - The nhrow first ooenrred in (',. Millei-'s "Wholl Turn GrindBtoneg?" The following la the paasoge : "Wheii 1 sec :i merchanl over polite to hi oustompr ""¦"i 10 nlsie a unte brandy, und Ihrowing hall his gooda ou llie eounleí, thinks I, ihal man lias an ax lo grlnd." riiorowtriihii'd." - lïi'ions to stock nomenclatura, and is npplied lo animáis liri-d lio ni Ihe liest IiIimhI, whclher hy n-lneeilIng, croM-breedlng, or otherwlte. Pullblo "led conveyt lUown tneanlng a plalnly il can lie "eiressed. A tnll-hlooded Amblan s a hone that has none hut Arihian blood in liim. "Beggina 'he quotüon." - A cotnmon lógica! tallaey, petitio iniicijiü j and the flre( ezplanauon of the phrase is to !¦ foand in Aristotle's Tópica, v i i i . , 13, where the live ways of heLjiiiK thfl question are set forth. "The earliust Enzliah work in whlch the expmslon is fonnd is "The Arts of l.ogike Plainlie set forth in our Ënffliab Tongue, etc., 15H1." "Star-Boute Service." - Tho name is taken trom the praclirc in the fiovenimeiit postofSoe department of deeignatinit tlie three wrord,oerta)nty,elerlty and eeurlty," by three stars, as thus, . It refers to tliat kind of mail service [icrfonned by otlier means tlian sleainboat or railwiiy, iUCh as on hoiseiiaek, by itage coach, none and bnrgv, on 1'oot, or hi any otber wav per niilted hv the reL'iihition. milieu li uiu iut;iii;uniii. "The time wnen tba mcmorv of man runnelh nul to the oonirary." - BlackBtons in hti "Commejrtarles on the Lawsof Bn{fhuiil," (vniiime 1, book oae, page ":!). '" neakineof common law, says: "To tnake a p.'iin. ... . o ¦'¦-' ¦ " requisito! Tli.it it has been wed to long that tl ie uemory ol' man runneth BOl EO the contrary. 80 thal If ttny oncean shOW the beglnnfng oflt, it is nogood custom." 'To flnd B .Mare's Nest." - To iiiake wliat yon suppose to be a };crcl (Jlieovery, bat 'wiiieh tunis out to le raoonthlne. Wbal we cali :i nightmare was by our Baxon forafathen rappoted to bc thu Baxoa éemon, "f mare, a Kind of vanipire, sitting on the leeper's ehwt. These ramptrei were said ti ba tlic nanlians of sonie liulilcn titM-nres. over uiilcli tliey boodsd as liens over tlieir eggl, aml tlic place wliere tliey sat was tciini'il tlieir niihis. or net. The on 1 v orijiin to be suggMlcd, tberefbre, i from the Saxon fable. 'I.oat'er." - '1'his wmil was evidently coined by the anctenU. At Pompeii there ia saiil tO le au inscription on the wall of' wlmt ml prohaljlv :i workshop of sonic kind, as folfow: loc hm ut, . morato." Tbitmaybe transí.-, t mI : "This place is not for the lav. Loafer, depart." 'l'liis Inscription la a good for industrial establishment it modern 1 iims. H it l'nr thosc ol iincicnt l'oinpcii. lts dlscovery is Interestiiii;. trom 'h' r " ' lll:" it shows Uu-i '"'"¦"' nature was the Barac i-iebtcen centuries ago In Italy as it is now n America: that therc were la.v lolks and loaters wlio would intrndc ulo workshops and waste the time or dlverl the attontion of the workmen, and that it become neessary to put np lueriptiona giving a general warning to all Midi to depart "Snoli." A wriler in the I.ondon Hote and Quería ffivei somc curlout facto concerning the orlgin of the word "inob." The word once meant "cobler." (HOWC'I Kvery hay Book, ii., B87.1 About the varH'Ji ii began to be used ín Cambridge, "kiifr., to desígnate i townsman as oppoeed to a nniversilv man. In No. 8, o? the dn nsinan (the little paper wliich, t. will be remembered, Thackery helped to edH at Cambridge ) the word '-snob" i delined as "not a gowiwman; therefore a lewd, vulgar fellow." 'l'ho writer in .Notes and Queries oonthinei as followt: "I ihonld attribute to Thaokeray'i own genlaa tl? wider applioaUon of tbe opprobrloua term ainl to tlie popularttv ol liis "Snob l'apers," bieb appeared originally in 1' h a (loeen yean o to Utter, the general üdoplion of it. Il appears Ihat in some Ainerican colleges the word was still uscd as lalely M ISw to desígnate B Ic.wiismaii as oppoaed U) slndent." Si. liOiiis QlobeI )einoerat.