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Little Miss Muffet. " Little Miss Muffet " is an English nursery rhyme of uncertain origin, first recorded in 1805. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605. The rhyme has for over a century attracted discussion as to the proper meaning of the word tuffet .
Cold hands, warm heart [a] Comparisons are odious [a] Count your blessings [a] Courage is the measure of a Man, Beauty is the measure of a Woman [a] Cowards may die many times before their death [a] Crime does not pay [a] Cream rises. Criss-cross, applesauce [a] Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
Touch grass A way of telling someone to "go outside", usually after said person is believed to have been on social media for too long. Believed to have originated in 2015, before experiencing a resurgence in 2020-2021. "Yeah, he needs to go touch grass." [171] [172] [173] Tweaking To be acting strangely or think you're hallucinating.
The name "Jack Sprat" was used of people of small stature in the 16th century. [ 1] This rhyme became an English proverb from at least the mid-17th century. [ 1] It appeared in John Clarke's collection of sayings in 1639 in the form: [ 1] Jack will eat not fat, and Jull doth love no leane. Yet betwixt them both they lick the dishes cleane.
In some examples the meaning is further obscured by adding a second iteration of rhyme and truncation to the original rhymed phrase. For example, the word "Aris" is often used to indicate the buttocks. This is the result of a double rhyme, starting with the original rough synonym "arse", which is rhymed with "bottle and glass", leading to "bottle".
Songwriter (s) unknown. " If wishes were horses, beggars would ride " is a proverb and nursery rhyme, first recorded about 1628 in a collection of Scottish proverbs, [ 1] which suggests if wishing could make things happen, then even the most destitute people would have everything they wanted. [ 2] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20004.
Published. 1755. " This Is the House That Jack Built " is a popular English nursery rhyme and cumulative tale. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20854. It is Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index type 2035.
Both rhymes were first printed separately in a Tom the Piper's Son, a chapbook produced around 1795 in London, England. [1] The origins of the shorter and better known rhyme are unknown. The second, longer rhyme was an adaptation of an existing verse which was current in England around the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth ...