(06-16-2022, 09:25 AM)Norgarth Wrote:
Here's another:
An expression used in the US Army for "We [or you] are wasting time!" is "We're burning daylight!" Romeo and Juliet Act I, scene iv, line 43 is "We burn daylight."
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"Oh, my people had many gods. There was Conformity, and Authority, and Expense Account, and Opinion. And there was Status, whose symbols were many, and who rode in the great chariot Cadillac, which was almost a god itself. And there was Atombomb, the dread destroyer, who would some day come to end the world." — Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, H. Beam Piper