icing on the cake
something good that is added to another good thing He was delighted to have his story published – getting paid for it was just icing on the cake.
icing on the cake - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
icing on the cake - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
Friday, December 2, 2011
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
Meaning
Don't persist with a task if the pressure of it is too much for you. The implication being that, if you can't cope, you should leave the work to someone who can.
Origin
This is widely reported as being coined by US President Harry S. Truman. That's almost correct, but in fact Truman was known to have used it at least as early as 1942 - before becoming president. Here's a citation from an Idaho newspaper The Soda Springs Sun, from July that year:
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"The grass is always greener on the other side, until you jump the fence and see the weeds up close."
- Albert Grashuis
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"The lure of adultery can be seen in the old saying: 'The Grass Is Greener On The Other Side Of The Fence.' Yet, the grass is greener where you mow it, fertilize it, water it, and take care of it."
-- Unknown
The collapse of the Soviet Union: Russia’s imperial agony | The Economist
Post-Imperium: A Eurasian Story. By Dmitri Trenin. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; 270 pages; $49.95 and £34.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
8 Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year journey Through the Soviet Collapse. By Lawrence Scott Sheets. Crown; 313 pages; $28. Buy from Amazon.com
“THE dying process has begun”, wrote Alexander Kugel, a journalist and theatre critic, a few months after the bloody Bolshevik revolution of 1917. “Everything that we see now is just part of the agony. Bolshevism is the death of Russia. And a body the size of Russia cannot die in one hour. It groans.” The agony lasted over 70 years. On December 25th 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev, on television, relinquished his duties as the last president of the USSR. The hammer and sickle flag was lowered from the Kremlin without fanfare. The empire expired with a sigh.
The collapse of the Soviet Union: Russia’s imperial agony | The Economist
Thursday, December 1, 2011
China’s economy: Poor by definition | The Economist
SINCE 1978 China has liberated more people from poverty than any other country in history, partly because China before 1978 consigned more people to poverty than anywhere else in history.
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