Burgundy is the color of a specific wine from a specific region of France, but I suspect that other wines are using that color without permission.
If Australia is a land down under, is Canada a land up over?
People sometimes use the term ‘boatload’ to describe a large amount of something, as in “a boatload of money.” But haven’t we all seen tiny boats?
I’m not a big proponent of the word ‘proponent’.
The phrase “rock and roll” started out as a euphemism for sex. I have never understood the “rolling” part of that analogy.
A love triangle is a volatile and potentially troublesome arrangement. It’s unstable, because it’s perpetually out of balance. Theoretically, a love parallelogram would be a more stable and sustainable construct, wherein no one has to spend lonely nights wondering about their significance.
People who conflate sex with dancing aren’t doing either one properly.
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