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... attributed to Joe Hill ( 1872-1915 ) : You will eat , bye and bye , In the glorious land above the sky ! Work and pray , Live on hay , You'll get pie in the sky when you die ! 10. pipe dream An unrealistic and of- ten fantastic plan ...
... attributed to Joe Hill ( 1872-1915 ) : You will eat , bye and bye , In the glorious land above the sky ! Work and pray , Live on hay , You'll get pie in the sky when you die ! 10. pipe dream An unrealistic and of- ten fantastic plan ...
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... attributed to Winston Churchill from his speech at Westminster College , Fulton , Missouri in 1946 , the term became the center of a controversy when Sir Vincent Trow- bridge , in a letter to Notes and Queries , January 1948 , revealed ...
... attributed to Winston Churchill from his speech at Westminster College , Fulton , Missouri in 1946 , the term became the center of a controversy when Sir Vincent Trow- bridge , in a letter to Notes and Queries , January 1948 , revealed ...
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... attributed to Julius Caesar at the time of his famous crossing of the Rubicon . Although the OED dates this specific expression from 1634 , Shake- speare's Richard III contains a similar concept : I have set my life upon a cast , And I ...
... attributed to Julius Caesar at the time of his famous crossing of the Rubicon . Although the OED dates this specific expression from 1634 , Shake- speare's Richard III contains a similar concept : I have set my life upon a cast , And I ...
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19th century allusion American expression American slang expression another's Anthony Trollope applied ball became blue Briticism British expression called Charles Dickens coined colloquial common commonly connotation contexts dead describe drink early 19th century England English especially expres expression alludes expression dates expression is derived expression refers figurative sense Frederick Marryat French frequently give hand hang head heard today hence horse implies indicate John John Heywood Jonathan Swift King least literal Lord meaning ment ness night nose obsolete one's oneself onym origin P. G. Wodehouse person phrase plausible play player political popular practice pression probably proverb related term Samuel Butler Shakespeare sion Sir Walter Scott situation slang term someone someone's thing Thomas tion tive Tyburn usage usually variant verb Webster's Third William word World War II