"It was the best of shires, it was the Worcestershire’s" is a saying that has been printed on several images. The pun is on the famous opening line of the historical novel by Charles…
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…
"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…
"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:…
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 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 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 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…
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 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…
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…
"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" is a saying that has been printed on many images. The saying is popular in late August and in September, when…
"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" (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" (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!" 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…
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…
"It's a good day when you're looking down at the grass instead of up at the roots" is a common saying, meaning that it's better to be alive than to be dead and buried.…
"We got the setting -- sunshine, fresh air, the team behind us," Chicago Cubs baseball star Ernie Banks (1931-2015) said on his induction into the baseball Hall of Fame in 1977.…