It is probable that all your life you have heard the various trite expressions. The old adages, the sayings, repeated on and on.
Just about everyone says one of them at junctures in conversations, as admonishments for behaviour. It is easier to use an old tried and true remark than attempt to create something new.
You hear them, have heard them, and probably use them. Often, they fall out of your mouth without you granting a single thought. You never even spend one second considering these expressions, what they mean or symbolise.
Then, one day you realise how apt these expressions are when they happen to you.
The other day the girls down the hall stuffed the toilet. I don’t know if they had ever seen a flush toilet before or didn’t know what they were doing, but…
They had stuffed the toilet and it was running like a geyser. There was water everywhere. The water was streaming from the toilet onto the floor and the girls were panicking, crying and shouting.
It was their noise which woke me out of a dead sleep.
Hearing the sound, assuming it was the zombie apocalypse, I rose to see what was happening.
I staggered towards the bathroom. Water covered the floor and was flowing into the hall as if someone turned on a hose. The girls didn’t know what to do.
I stood there, not in a particularly good mood. Aware that I was surrounded by the helpless and mind dead, I took myself to locate the trusty plunger.
The plunger was not lost. It was swimming by the toilet. Seising it my hand, I inserted it and began my activity. In no more than a short time, I had cleared the blockage.
Yes!
I had cleared it. Me. Alone!
In triumph I flushed the toilet, the sound echoing in the hallway, and Yes! It was business as usual.
Proudly I stepped from the bathroom, holding my plunger in triumph. I stood there, expecting accolades and thanks. I paused a moment, waiting to receive those humble but grateful eyes.
Yes!
And then, there I was, bestriding the hallway as a colossus. I, the hero of the Day! Suddenly, I slipped in the water.
I slipped and fell.
Splat.
Pride goeth before a fall.
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LOL. LOL. Hilarious! That was a great story. You kept my attention from start to finish! I was visualizing everything while I was reading and also thinking 'Sounds like my house'. LOL. LOL. :)
In Greek mythology Thetis dipped her son Achilles in the mythical River Styx. Anyone who was immersed in the river became invulnerable. However Thetis held Achilles by his heel. Since her hand covered this part of his body the water did not touch it and so it remained vulnerable. Achilles was eventually killed when Paris of Troy fired an arrow at him and it hit his heel.
A bakers dozen means thirteen. This old saying is said to come from the days when bakers were severely punished for baking underweight loaves. Some added a loaf to a batch of a dozen to be above suspicion.
On a ship the beams are horizontal timbers that stretch across the ship and support the decks. If you are on your beam-ends your ship is leaning at a dangerous angle. In other words you are in a precarious situation.
This old saying means to grin and bear a painful situation. It comes from the days before anesthetics. A soldier about to undergo an operation was given a bullet to bite.
Anchor cable was wrapped around posts called bitts. The last piece of cable was called the bitter end. If you let out the cable to the bitter end there was nothing else you could do, you had reached the end of your resources.
I can feel your sentiment on this. I might feel so irritated with the big bang done by others while I am in a dreamland. Well, we just need to compose ourselves and deal with the problem instead. It will consume all the energy if things are out-of-control.