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Flying colours - To come through a battle with flying colours means a ship has come through relatively unscathed and with her colours (flag) flying. After all, it sounds plausible that ‘cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey’ comes from brass ship’s fittings and that POSH means ‘Port out, starboard home’, but neither of these is correct.
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This can be attributed to the attractiveness of the romantic image of horny-handed sailors singing shanties and living a hearty and rough life at sea.
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Origin Of ‘Ships Passing In The Night’ The ocean is a big place, so what are the odds of two ships sailing directly past each other?
CANOE, the Committee to Ascribe a Naval Origin to Everything, doesn’t really exist, but the number of these folk myths makes it seem as though they do…It is lucky for us, in our endeavours to distinguish truth from falsehood, that activities at sea have been scrupulously recorded over the centuries, in insurance records, newspaper accounts and, not least, in ships’ log books. 1
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He said it's only life's illusions That bring us to this bar To pick up these old crutches And compare each other's scars 'Cuz the things we're calling heartache Hell, they're hardly worth our time We bitch about a dollar When there's those without a dime. Between 1990 and 2004, he had 35 singles that charted on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, five of which peaked at number one. i believe there was a time that they did love each other, but it just became a habit to say,”i love you,” to each other. He also co-wrote singles for Holly Dunn, Tim McGraw, and Jo Dee Messina, and recorded with Mary Chapin Carpenter, George Jones, and Marty Stuart. Dave Gibson, a member of the Gibson/Miller Band, co-wrote it with Paul Nelson.
Song Released: 2020 Ships That Don't Come In Lyrics.
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Anticipation and rain check are among the most frequently looked-up words in July
For me it means hot weather, watermelon, ya’ll, yes sir, no sir, SEC football, grits, cornbread and NASCAR.
Joe Diffie (December 28, 1958 – March 29, 2020) was an American country musician.
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