English phrases
Created: 13 May 2026, Modified: 28 Oct 2026
§ 2026-05-13
- “No officer is a great general to his batman”. Meaning that once you’ve seen him shaving, in his underpants, you can’t think of him as such a great man. Broadly speaking: Familiarity breeds contempt. (Keith Bradford)
§ 2026-05-26
- on aggregate
§ 2026-09-02
- “I thought it was madness,” he said, as he replaced the obnoxious paper in the safe, “and now I begin to fear it is disgrace.” (jekyll and hyde c2)
- But tonight there was a shudder in his blood; the face of Hyde sat heavy on his memory; he felt (what was rare with him) a nausea and distaste of life; and in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed to read a menace in the flickering of the firelight on the polished cabinets and the uneasy starting of the shadow on the roof. (^)
§ 2026-09-07
- But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below. (^ c7)
§ 2026-10-28
- when something good we’ve longed for finally does come along, it lumbers in a little too late somehow, loaded down with petty, annoying, upsetting details, covered with all the grime of reality that we never really imagined, and that is so irritating—irritating. (buddenbrooks 7.6, trad. woods)
- And the moment something begins to subside, to relax, to grow weary, then everything around us is turned loose, resists us, rebels, moves beyond our influence. And then it’s just one thing after another, one setback after another, and you’re finished. (^)
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