A - Z Database
see Suck the hind tit
see Not suffer fools gladly
“Great souls suffer in silence” is from the play Don Carlos by Schiller written in 1787. The OED, however, dates the expression in English from only t...
The actual quotation is “suffer the little children to come unto me” from the New Testament Mark 10:14 from the late medieval sense of suffer meaning...
Shakespeare’s famous metaphor for the downside of life is part of Hamlet’s even more famous soliloquy, to be or not to be from Hamlet (c.1600) Act III...
An older man who spends money on younger women in return for sex/companionship dates from the early 20th century and is American in origin. The allusi...
Sun is over the yard arm is a British expression dating from the late 19th century that means it is time for the first alcoholic drink of the day. The...
see Days of the week
One’s very best clothes, so-called because they were worn to church on a Sunday, dates from the early 1600s.
A Sunday punch is a boxer’s very best punch, usually a knockout blow, and dates from c. 1915 and probably derives from Sunday best in the sense of sav...
An American idiom from the 1960s and still in use today that describes a fairly downmarket type of cuisine, usually associated with steakhouses, where...
This common and well-known expression that means browsing or searching for information on the Internet was coined by an American librarian at the Univ...
see Chinese cut
Suss as in to suss something out or to have something sussed, derives from an abbreviation of the word suspect. It was originally underworld/police sl...
see One swallow does not make a summer