| Thomascefe | Date: Piektdiena, 2015-11-27, 1:55 PM | Message # 1 |
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| 1 in 8 Americans has worked at a McDonalds restaurant.
Length of beard an average man would grow if he never shaved 27.5 feet
Sow one's wild oats exact likeness there is a very old expression (c. 1400) 'as like one as if he had been spit out of his mouth' (meaning 'very alike'); jonathan swift, for example, wrote much later 'she as like her husband as if she were spit out of his mouth'. Later variants were 'he's the very spit of' and 'he's the spit and image of' and this last one developed into the modern version.
Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
Straw poll a catchphrase originating in fairground language, the full expression is what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts. It is an optimistic assertion that, all things considered, matters tend to turn out satisfactorily if you take the rough with the smooth. Swings go up and down, and roundabouts go round and round, but taken both together they add up to the same thing - a way of giving amusement and making a living.
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