“It was the bestestershire, it was the worcestershire”
Government often has "emergency" exceptions to laws. "If you let the government break the law because of an 'emergency', they will always create an 'emergency' to…
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“It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark” (planning proverb)
"It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark" is a proverbial saying that means that one should plan ahead. "It Wasn't Raining When Noah Commenced the Ark" was cited in…
“It wasn’t school John disliked, it was just the principal of it”
"Principal" and "principle" are often confused. A joke was published in Life (a New York City humor magazine) on February 4, 1926, and was frequently reprinted in newspapers:…
“It will always be New York or nowhere”
Quincy Moore founded the lifestyle brand Knowlita in 2015, and Knowlita sold "New York or Nowhere" shirts. In 2020, Moore formed a company with Liz Eswein called New York or Nowhere…
“It will fluctuate” (J. Pierpont Morgan?)
A widely cited incident involves when J. P. Morgan (1837-1913) was asked by someone what the market would do that day. "It will fluctuate, young man. It will fluctuate," Morgan reportedly…
“It will forever be a mystery to me how the foil completely covers a full easter egg, you eat half, then the foil is somehow no longer big enough to even cover a half”
A chocolate Easter egg usually has a thin foil wrapping. When people eat half an egg and then try to cover it up, they find that there's not enough foil to cover it again. "My mind is…
“It will snow. It is snowing. It snows. It snew. It has snode”
"It snode" (for "it snowed") is a snow spelling/saying/meme that has been printed on many images. "It snew" has also been used and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary…
“It will take an act of Congress” (idiom)
"It will take an act of Congress" is often not meant literally, but is used as an idiom -- for example, "it will take an act of Congress to get him a date." "It will take…
“It’ll be greater later” (motivational saying)
"It gets greater later" (or "It'll get greater later") is a motivational saying that has been printed on several images. Authorship is unknown. "Things will get…
“It’ll get greater later” (motivational saying)
"It gets greater later" (or "It'll get greater later") is a motivational saying that has been printed on several images. Authorship is unknown. "Things will get…
“It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?”
New York City's Channel 5 (then WNEW, now FOX television) has a 10 o'clock newscast. Before each newscast appears the public service announcement: "It's 10 p.m. Do you know…
“It’s 100 and hell degrees outside” (very hot)
"It's a/one hundred and hell degrees outside" (or "It's 100 and hell degrees outside") means that it's very hot. "We know it's 100-and-hell" was…
“It’s 110 degrees, but it’s a dry heat” (Texas heat joke)
In Arizona, Texas and other parts of the west, the temperature often averages over 100 degrees during the summer. "But it's a dry heat!" is the clichéd response that some natives…
“It’s 25 or 6 to 4 somewhere”
"25 or 6 to 4" is a song by the band Chicago that appeared on their second album, Chicago (1970). "It's (always) 25 or 6 To 4 somewhere" is a joke on the drinking saying,…
“It’s 97 degrees outside. Keep your pumpkin spice away from my margarita”
"It’s 97 degrees outside. Keep your pumpkin spice away from my margarita" is a saying that has been printed on many images. The saying is popular in late August and in September, when…
“It’s a Bill of Rights, not a Bill of Needs”
"It's the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Needs" (or "It's a Bill of Rights, not a Bill of Needs") is a saying that has been printed on many images. The saying usually…
“It’s a child, not a choice”
"It's a child, not a choice" (or "I'm/She's a child, not a choice") is a popular pro-life slogan that has been printed on many gift items, such as bumper stickers…
“It’s a dirty job, but somebody has to do it”
"It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it" (or, "it's dirty work, but someone's gotta do it") is a popular cliché said about difficult jobs. In 1955,…
“It’s a free country!”
"It's a free country!" means that the speaker believes that he or she can disagree with another and do something that another disapproves of. The saying has a long history in the…
“It’s a good book, but everyone gets killed in the end” (Pete Gent on Dallas Cowboys playbook)
Pete Gent was a Dallas Cowboys football player (1964-1968) under coach Tom Landry. Landry's playbook was known to be top secret and enormously complicated. Gent would write a 1973 novel about…