Description : What is the origin of the phrase "hundred-dollar word"?
Last Answer : Welcome to Fluther. I have never heard the expression, hundred dollar word. I have heard people talk about million dollar words or million dollar vocabulary. Is that the kind of thing you have in mind?
Description : What is the origin of the word/phrase 'butt-hurt'?
Last Answer : I wish I knew the origin. It’s a phrase I commonly use. First time I heard it was two years ago at a firehouse. One of the guys was describing how another guy got all butt-hurt after they put his uniform in a bucket of water in the freezer. Don’t leave your uniform laying around after shift.
Description : Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "flip someone the bird"?
Last Answer : Because….flipping them the tortoise wouldn’t make any sense?
Description : Does anyone know the origin of the phrase, "Would you like to come up to see my etchings?"?
Last Answer : Never even heard it - what does it mean, anyway?
Description : What is the origin of the phrase "Location, location, location"?
Last Answer : Real estate
Description : Meaning of this phrase, "last in and second out"?
Last Answer : answer:I think that would be a sly reference to being late to endorse something that’s hip. Last in… every other free thinker is doing it; second out… rejects the idea after somebody cooler has done so. I like it.
Description : I guess I am supposed to phrase this question like so: I was fired from my last job, should I allow a prospective employer to contact them?
Last Answer : answer:If I was you, I would ask a friend to pose as a prospective employer and call them to see what they say. Also see this similar question for more information.
Description : A husband and wife are seated facing each other with a barrier between them. Each one takes turns communicating with the other, each speaking only two words at a time. After each two-word message is ... or frustrated with the person who shouted the four-word phrase. What is going on here? -Riddles
Last Answer : The husband and wife are playing the old game of BATTLESHIP. The two-word communications consist of a letter and a number for the coordinates of where the ships are hidden, and the one-word responses are ... ' or 'Miss'. The final four word phrase which ends the game is, 'You Sank My Battleship!
Description : What was the last phrase JESUS spoke on cross mean?
Last Answer : it is finished
Description : Anyone know the origin of the last name Callard?
Last Answer : From googling it looks like it is most likely English. There is also a connection to French possibly, but seems like origins from Brittain are the strongest.
Description : Last name origin?
Last Answer : Looks Indian or Pakistani to me.
Description : A man walks 30 m towards north, then 20 m, towards east and in the last `30sqrt(2)` m towards south - west. The displacement from origin is :
Last Answer : A man walks 30 m towards north, then 20 m, towards east and in the last `30sqrt(2)` m towards ... north west D. `60 sqrt 2m`. Towards north east
Description : What is origin of the last name Pomerlyan?
Last Answer : Need answer
Description : From your point of view what is the worst disaster to hit the world in the last ten years?
Last Answer : For America 911
Description : According to a recent news, the State Bank of India was being put in Hall of Shame list along with some other banks. The reason for this was A) for not recovering the NPAs in the last 6 months ... C) for supporting Vijay Malaya D) it listed the worst NPAs ever the last quarter E) None of these
Last Answer : B) for financing a US cluster bomb manufacturer Explanation: The State Bank of India has defended financing a US cluster bomb manufacturer, saying its investments were legal, after being put in ... America and Credit Suisse - that violated an international ban for investing in cluster bomb firms.