‘like a duck takes to water’: meaning and origin
easily, readily—UK, 1825
Read More“ad fontes!”
easily, readily—UK, 1825
Read MoreUK, 1816—a meaningless bantering phrase—originated in a print published in June, satirising the fact that a bill on additional taxation on soap had been brought in unobtrusively in May by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Read MoreUSA, 1833—jocular phrase meaning that the speaker does not care what he is being called—a U.S. and Australian variant uses ‘breakfast’ instead of ‘dinner’
Read Moreused to express satisfaction when a task that has called for more than usual enterprise and determination has been accomplished—UK, 1833
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