Category: idioms

Business and economic quotes Historical quotes idioms Literature November 12 Phrase origins Religion the almighty dollar The Creole Village Washington Irving

The genesis of “the Almighty Dollar” – from Genesis to Washington Irving…

6 months ago
Robert Deis aka SubtropicBob

The word almighty, used in connection with God, appears 57 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Starting in the Book of Genesis, God is variously referred to…

Dennis Hopper Easy Rider Elliot Ingber Fraternity of Man hippies idioms July 14 June 24 Larry Wagner Movie Quotes Music quotations Peter Fonda Pop Culture

“Don’t Bogart that joint, my friend…”

6 years ago
Robert Deis aka SubtropicBob

[Reposted by popular demand…] On June 24, 1968, ABC Records released the self-titled first album by The Fraternity of Man, a California-based rock band whose members included former Mothers of…

August 12 beautiful people Diana Vreeland hippies idioms July 7 Music quotations Oscar Wilde Pop Culture The Beatles

“How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?”

9 years ago
Robert Deis aka SubtropicBob

The phrase “beautiful people” had been used prior to the 1960s. For example, in Oscar Wilde’s play An Ideal Husband, a social comedy first performed in 1895, one of the…

as American as apple pie Bar Barack Obama George Zimmerman H. Rap Brown (a.k.a. Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) Historical quotes idioms July 27 Kerner Commission (National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders) Lyndon B. Johnson Phrase origins Political quotes Sixties Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Trayvon Martin Violence is as American as cherry pie

As American as apple pie, cherry pie – and violence…

9 years ago
Robert Deis aka SubtropicBob

Apple trees are not native to America. They originated in Central Asia and were grown in Asia and Europe long before European colonists brought them to North America. However, as…