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Brewer's: Carpe Diem
Enjoy yourself while you have the opportunity. Seize the present day. (Horace: 1 Odes, xi. 8.) “Dum vivimus, vivamus.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Counsel
Keep your own counsel. Don't talk about what you intend to do. Keep your plans to yourself. “Now, mind what I tell you, and keep your own counsel.” —Boldrewood: Robbery Under Arms, chap.…Brewer's: Frying-pan
Out of the frying-pan into the fire. In trying to extricate yourself from one evil, you fell into a greater. The Greeks used to say, “Out of the smoke into the flame;” and the French say…Brewer's: Lower your Sail
In French, “Caler la voile, ” means to salute; to confess yourself submissive or conquered; to humble oneself. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Lowlanders of…Brewer's: Out of the Wood
“You are not out of the wood yet,” not yet out of danger. “Don't shout till you are out of the wood,” do not think yourself safe till you are quite clear of the threatened danger. When…Brewer's: Endorse
I endorse that statement. I accept it; I fully accord with it. The allusion is to the commercial practice of writing your name on the back of a bill of exchange or promissory note if you…Brewer's: Scant-of-grace
(A). A madcap; a wild, disorderly, graceless fellow. “You, a gentleman of birth and breeding ... associate yourself with a sort of scant-of-grace, as men call me.” —SirW.Scott: Kenilworth…Brewer's: Tu l'as Voulu, George Dandin
(`Tis your own fault, George Dandin). You brought this upon yourself; as you have made your bed so you must lie on it. (See Dandin.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…2003 George Foster Peabody Awards
Honor and Betrayal: Scandal at the Academy:KMGH-TV, Denver, Colo.60 Minutes: All In the Family:CBS News, New YorkA Question of Fairness:NBC News, New YorkWar PhotographerChristian Frei…Brewer's: Gradely
A north of England term meaning thoroughly; regularly; as Behave yourself gradely. A gradely fine day. “Sammy ll fettle him graidely.” —Mrs. H. Burnett: That Lass o'Lowrie's, chap. ii.…Trending
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