hi guys!
i need your help...
i want to know the origin of the phrase ''do not burn the candle at both ends''..
it's really really important...
hi guys!
i need your help...
i want to know the origin of the phrase ''do not burn the candle at both ends''..
it's really really important...
see here
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
hi all!
thanx kilted exile!
i allready got this one.. it only mentions the time when it was first coined(18th century) & what does it mean but where??? this is what i wanna know?
From the link:
The where would be France.the phrase derives from an earlier French version. Randle Cotgrave recorded it in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, 1611:
'Brusler la chandelle par les deux bouts'. [To burn the candle by the two ends]
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
BBC online did an excellent article on the origin of metaphors today:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7252561.stm
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
Allright!
Thanx
from Edna St. Vincent Millay:
"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light."
Ah, if Edna had been a child of the Computer Age, and had posted this on the web, would someone reply that she had
used a "cliché"?
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