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Letter "L" » leg
«Sometimes you have to put your foot down to get a leg up.»
«The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself»
«The Ruffed Padanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg. The padanga is dying out because the female padanga doesn't take it too seriously.»
Author: Mike Harding
| Keywords:
Borneo, Churchill, cooper, feathers, leg, spreads, Tommy, Tommy Cooper, Winston Churchill
«When your cat rubs the side of its face along your leg, it's affectionately marking you with its scent, identifying you as its private property, saying, in effect, 'You belong to me'»
Author: Susan McDonough
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Cats
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affectionately, along, belong, belong to, CAT, effect, effected, effecting, face, identifies, identifying, in effect, leg, leg it, marking, private, privates, private property, property, rubbing, rubs, rub up, saying, scent, scented, scenting, scents, side, side effect, side effects, to that effect
«Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.»
«What if you're a really good person, but you get into a really, really bad fight and your leg gets gangrene and it has to be amputated. Will it be waiting for you in heaven?»
«When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.»
«The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bills, Bill of Rights, broke, collect, go up, grandfather, great grandfather, hardware, hardware store, laughed, leg, nugget, peter out, plus, The Doctor, turned out, volcano, volcanoes
«The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.»
«The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
arm, dollars, etc., etc, every other, leg, losing, loss, noticed, pass off, quietly
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