Call it a day "Let's call it a day and go home," Teddy said. Because the person he's addressing doesn't understand the expression, it's up to me to explain that when we call it a day, we stop whatever we are doing, regardless of the time. "After twenty years as a postman, Mr Burr called it a day and retired."
Go Dutch It takes at least two people to go Dutch for the simple reason that when we go Dutch we share the cost of something, each person paying his or her own expenses. "Hans invited Gretchen to join him for lunch. Knowing he hasn't much money, Gretchen has insisted that they go Dutch." | |
One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine._Japanese Proverb_
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater." _William Hazlitt_
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." | |
Happiness depends on more than years.
All one's moments gather to a wave
Passing in a rolling swell of tears,
Passions too immense to name or save.
Yet New Year's is a crest on which to sing,
Now poised between the future and the past.
Each awaits what course the fates may bring,
Winds that never touch the things that last.
Years turn and turn with an hypnotic grace
Even as the depths of life lie still.
Although above one cannot silence face,
Remember that below the divers will
آب در هاون کوبیدنattempt the impossible
آدم خانه به دوشa bird of passage
آروغ زدنbreak wind
آش شله قلمکارmish-mash