English phrases
Created: 13 May 2026, Modified: 07 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. (^)
§ 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)
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