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Dear of troy: If I remember right one post about jaywalking mentioned that "jay" was used to describe a stupid person. Cakewalking referred I think to a party challenge to do something like dance steps to win a cake as prize.
"As the crow flies" means the shortest distance from one place to another disregarding roads.Bee line is very interesting. Bees navigate by the sun, and do not leave the nest much when the overcast is thick. When a bee finds a new source of nectar, on its return to the hive does a "dance" on the comb, surrounded by other worker bees, waggling the posterior and climbing at an angle that tells the other bees the direction and distance of the find. Naturally the workers then go straight to the new found pasture.
"Crooked as a ram's horn" is not a very good figure of speech. Ram's horns tend to be somewhat helical, but simply cannot be significantly "crooked" which originally meant curved or bent, but now most people think of as meaning sharply angled.
There was a crooked
man
Who walked a crooked
mile.
He found a crooked
sixpence
Against a crooked
stile.
He bought a crooked
cat
Which caught a
crooked mouse,
And they all lived
together
In a crooked little
house.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted like an arrow of troy 06/26/01 03:43 PM Re: like an arrow maverick 06/26/01 03:47 PM Re: Time flies like an arrow Faldage 06/26/01 04:13 PM Re: Time flies like an arrow of troy 06/26/01 04:36 PM Re: Time flies like an arrow Jazzoctopus 06/26/01 07:20 PM Re: like an arrow Jackie 06/27/01 12:06 PM Re: like an arrow Alex Williams 06/27/01 03:06 PM Re: like an arrow wwh 06/27/01 04:08 PM Re: like an arrow doc_comfort 06/28/01 07:09 AM Re: like an arrow wwh 06/28/01 12:28 PM Re: like an arrow maverick 06/28/01 12:40 PM Re: like an arrow wwh 06/26/01 04:28 PM
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