English phrases
Created: 13 May 2026, Modified: 03 Sep 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
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§ 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. (^)
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