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“O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory?” This was coined by St Paul in the New Testament I Corinthians 15:54, where the word ‘sting...
Occam’s or Ockham’s razor is sometimes referred to as the law of parsimony or economy, which states that when confronted with two competing hypotheses...
see Months of the year
see Odd/odds and evens etc.
This means more or less the same as oddball but is an abbreviation of 'odd body' where body means a person. This expression is of British origin and d...
see Odd/odds and evens etc.
see Odd/odds and evens etc.
see Odd/odds and evens
Odd, of course, is a well-known adjective for strange or unusual, but odd, as in an odd number, means an uneven number i.e. one that is not divisible...
An oddball is a strange or eccentric person. Oddball can also be used as an adjective to describe something that is unconventional or non-standard, su...
Odds and ends has a similar meaning to bits and bobs, which means odd remnants, miscellaneous items, bits and pieces. In bits and bobs, a ‘bob’ meanin...
Odds and sods is a vulgar British version of odds and ends and dates, according to Eric Partridge, from c. 1945. One presumes that ‘sods’ was substitu...
This strange expression is usually used as an exclamation and is a euphemism or minced oath for God’s body, dating from the early 18th century. A bodk...
see Touch base
Not up to standard or par, dates from the mid-18th century, with particular reference to not feeling well in the sense of not exhibiting a normal, hea...