Actual Freedom – Definitions

Definitions

Let the Cat Out of the Bag; Meanwhile, back at the Ranch

Nutter/Nutty; On a Hiding to Nowhere; One in a Million; Out of Wedlock

Over-egg the Pudding; People who Live in Glasshouses; Rule the Roost

A Snowball’s Chance in Hell; Shooting from the Lip; Sought After

Sour Grapes; Standing on the Shoulders of Giants; Straw Man Argument

Take One for the Team; Teach One’s Grandmother to Suck Eggs

There are None so Blind as Those who Will not See; If Truth Be Known

Toll the Death Knell Tugging-the-Forelock; Verbum Sapiente Sat Est; 

What a Tangled Web; With a Grain or Pinch of Salt

Let the Cat Out of the Bag:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘let the cat out of the bag: reveal a secret, esp. involuntarily’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch:

meanwhile, back at the ranch (idiom): a humorous phrase used as a segue to talk about what is happening where someone lives or works; [e.g.]: “Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we’re having so much landscaping work done the whole area feels like a construction zone!” ~ (Farlex Dictionary of Idioms).

Nutter/ Nutty:

On a Hiding to Nowhere:

on a hiding to nothing (British): if someone is on a hiding to nothing, they have absolutely no chance of being successful at what they are trying to do; [e.g.]: “An automobile manufacturer capable of making only fifty-thousand vehicles a year is on a hiding to nothing”; “She’s on a hiding to nothing going round complaining about how her ideas have been stolen by the advertising industry”. (Note): a hiding is a beating or flogging, but the origin of this expression is unknown. ~ (Collins Co-Build Idioms Dictionary).

One in a Million/One in a Billion:

Out of Wedlock:

out of wedlock (idiom): of parents not legally married; [e.g.]: “Over the centuries many royal children were born out of wedlock”; the noun ‘wedlock’, for the state of being married, is rarely heard today except in this phrase, first recorded in 1675; its converse, *in wedlock*, dates from the 1300s and is even more rarely used. [emphasis added]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary of Idiomsby Christine Ammer).

Over-egg the Pudding:

People Who Live in Glasshouses:

Rule the Roost:

A Snowball’s Chance in Hell: 

Shooting from the Lip:

Sought After:

Sour Grapes:

sour grapes (idiom): disparaging what one cannot but would like to have. This term comes from the punch line of one of Æsop’s most famous fables, delivered by the fox when she finds she cannot reach some grapes on a very high vine. It has been used ever since to describe putting down what one can’t attain. ~ (The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer).

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants:

[Definition]: ‘Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants (Latin: nanos gigantum humeris insidentes) is a Western metaphor meaning ‘One who develops future intellectual pursuits by understanding the research and works created by notable thinkers of the past’; a contemporary interpretation. However, the metaphor was first recorded in the twelfth century and attributed to Bernard of Chartres. It was famously used by the seventeenth-century scientist Isaac Newton.’ (Wikipedia).

Straw Man Argument:

Take One for the Team:

[Dictionary Definitions]:

• ‘take one for the team (idiom): to sacrifice one’s own welfare or interests in favour of others’; [e.g.]: “My friend was desperate to go on a date with this guy, so I took one for the team and agreed to go on a double date with his less attractive friend”. ~ (Farlex Dictionary of Idioms).

• take one for the team (idiom): to make a sacrifice on behalf of the group; the ‘classic’ use of the phrase is when a baseball batter deliberately allows himself to be hit by a pitched ball which forces a home run to win a tied game; another scenario: your pal wants to go out on a date with a real babe, but the babe won’t go unless your pal finds a date for her homely friend; your pal begs you; you accept; you’re taking one for the team. ~ (page 201, “Endangered Phrases” by Steven D. Price; ©2011, Skyhorse Publishing Inc.). (https://books.google.com/?id=n-FDCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT201).

Teach One’s Grandmother to Suck Eggs:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘teach one’s grandmother to suck eggs: presume to advise someone who is more experienced’. (Oxford Dictionary).

There are None so Blind as Those who Will not See:

• According to the ‘Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings’ this proverb has been traced back to 1546 (John Heywood), and resembles the Biblical verse Jeremiah 5:21 (‘Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not’). In 1738 it was used by Jonathan Swift in his ‘Polite Conversation’ and is first attested in the United States in the 1713 ‘Works of Thomas Chalkley’. The full saying is: ‘There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know’.

If Truth Be Known/if Truth Be Told:

Toll the Death Knell:

Tugging-the-Forelock:

[Dictionary Definition]: forelock-tugging (idiom): a show of excessive deference toward someone in a superior position; [e.g.]: “I hate being in meetings with the CEO because then I have to witness all of the managers’ forelock-tugging”. ~ (Farlex Dictionary of Idioms).  

• “I’d show them photos of Baldrick and say, ‘That’s you, that is’, and... tell them that if they ever made a name for themselves as a professional serf, they would be viewed as an ingratiating flunky, a grovelling hanger-on, a forelock-tugging, cap-doffing, knee-bending, toilet-seat wiping, embarrassment to the human race”. (“Grovelling Burrell’s a Self-Serfing Leech”, byline by Brian Reade, ‘The Mirror’, London, England; Sep 14, 2006, ©MGN Ltd).

Verbum Sapiente Sat Est (a Word to the Wise):

What a Tangled Web:

With a Grain or Pinch of Salt:

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