💊💉👩🏿‍⚕️👩🏼‍⚕️👨🏽‍⚕️👨‍⚕️👩🏿‍⚕️💊💉🏥⚕️🥼🩺🩻😷⛑️💁🏿‍♀️*3 Key Phrases to Get a Doctor to Take Your Symptoms Seriously — According to a Doctor👉

#Key #Phrases #to #Doctor

3 Phrases to Use at the Doctor’s Office to Avoid Being Dismissed
https://www.today.com/health/womens-health/phrases-to-get-doctor-take-pain-seriously-rcna344955

This is the moment of truth! 

After that, we can go back to lies and mystifications. 

#lang_en #absurd #phrases #words

40+ Common expressions that became great song titles

Listed below are 40 common expressions that have become great song titles over the years. They are presented in alphabetical order. The songs shown date from 1955 to 2026. Feel free to pass along any others that you may know.

Peace!

“Ain’t That a Kick in the Head” – 1959 song by Dean Martin

“Ain’t That a Shame” – 1955 song by Fats Domino and in 1979 by Cheap Trick

“Another One Bites the Dust” – 1980 song by Queen

“Asking for a Friend” – 2025 song by Foo Fighters

“Back of My Hand” – 2025 song by Belair Lip Bombs and 2005 song by The Rolling Stones

“Beating Around the Bush” – 1977 song by AC/DC

“Can We Still Be Friends” – 1978 song by Todd Rundgren

“Come As You Are” – 1991 song by Nirvana

“Cry Me a River” – 1955 song recorded by multiple artists

“Fight Fire with Fire” – song by multiple artists including Metallica

“Get On the Ball” – 1992 song by No Doubt

“God Only Knows” – 1966 song by The Beach Boys

“Good Help Is So Hard to Find” – 2014 song by DCFC

“Hanging Out to Dry” – 2026 song by Florence Road

“Hit the Road Jack” – 1960 song by Ray Charles

“I Heard It Through the Grapevine” –  1967 song by Gladys Knight and the Pups and 1968 release by Marvin Gaye

“If It Makes You Happy” – 1996 song by Sheryl Crow

“Keep Your Hands to Yourself” – 1987 song by the Georgia Satellites

“Let It All Hang Out” – 2009 song by Weezer

“Let the Good Times Roll” – 1978 song by The Cars

“Life in the Fast Lane” – 1976 song by The Eagles

“Listen to Your Heart” – 1988 song by Roxette

“One Way or Another” – 1979 song by Blondie

“Only the Good Die Young” – 1978 song by Billy Joel

“Point of No Return” – 1977 song by Kansas

“Race Against Time” – 1987 song by U2

“Same Old Song and Dance” – 1974 song by Aerosmith

“Should’ve Known Better” – 2026 song by the Beaches

“Takes One to Know One” – 2025 song by the Beaches

“The Best Is Yet to Come” – 1959 song by Frank Sinatra and Count Basie

“The First Cut Is the Deepest” – 1967 song by Cat Stevens, Sheryl Crow, and others

“Too Close for Comfort” – 1956 song by Sammy Davis, Jr.

“Too Much Time on My Hands” – 1981 song by Styx

“You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” – 1974 song by Bachman Turner Overdrive

“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” – 1969 song by The Rolling Stones

“You Only Live Once” – 2006 song by The Strokes

“What Can I Say” – 2005 song by Brandi Carlile

“What Do I Know” – 2025 song by Deep Sea Diver

“Wish You Were Here” – 1975 song by Pink Floyd

“Working for the Weekend” – 1981 by Loverboy

“Wrapped Around Your Finger” – 1983 song by The Police

SOURCES:

• personal knowledge
• reddit.com
• http://www.google.com
• en.wikipedia.org

Love yourself

Something that is quite obvious to me was quoted by a Master of Corporal skills

Do not ever speak negatively about yourself, not even as a joke.

Your corpus does not differentiate between jokes and truth on this energetic level.

Words emit energy and they do eminate spells. The skill of seperating words in elements is called spelling for a good reasons!

Change the way you speak about yourself and you shall change your life.

#Words #of #wisdom #WordsOfWisdom #Motivation #motivational #phrases

Fun to see the Irish idiom "make a hames of" in a national news headline: https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0417/1568809-odonovan-protests/

I wrote about the expression in 2012: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/making-a-hames-of-it/

#language #IrishEnglish #dialect #idioms #phrases #words #blogpost

Oh, I think I just realised what people mean when they say ‘have your cake and eat it too’. 

They probably mean eating your cake and having your (uneaten) cake in your possession, both at once, which is impossible. 

To me it always sounded like you get a cake and then you eat it, which is much less impossible. I mean, if you have a cake, then you are most likely going to eat it, and if you are eating cake, then of course you need to have cake. You could give someone cake and not let them eat it, but why would you do that? Who does that?! Really, the phrasing is just needlessly confusing! :gutkato_kapturniĝas:

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Saw this sentence with both the Irish English "give out" and a standardized-English "give out":

"The banks often give out¹ that the rules are too tight and they can’t give out² the money people need."

¹ complain
² issue, distribute

Source and commentary: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/giving-out-irish-style/

#language #dialect #idioms #IrishEnglish #EnglishUsage #phrases

“You’ll Have Had Your Tea”: the thread about a press fabrication of a popularised myth

This thread was originally written and published in May 2023.

In June 1983, the City of Glasgow launches its fondly remembered “Glasgow’s Miles Better” advertising slogan, as seen below in curious company with Margaret Thatcher. This confident, cheerful self-promotion of the City is something that Glasgow seems much more comfortable and at home with than Edinburgh and its more recent, insipid, uninspiring, cringeworthy attempts like “Inspiring Capital” or “Incredinburgh“.

Of course if you focus-grouped a sample of self-respecting Glaswegians on what Edinburgh’s slogan should be, you would likely find “You’ll Have Had Your Tea” in amongst the responses. As any resident of that City will tell you, in Glasgow they’ll ask you if you want to come in for your tea, in Edinburgh you’ll get the former cold response. Which all got me thinking… (you know where this is going now, don’t you?) Just where and when does the phrase/jibe “You’ll Have Had Your Tea” come from?

Now, if you’ll Google this for yourself you’ll find what I consider to be an incredulous claim that it originates with Mackintosh of Borlum of all characters, in 1729. If you don’t know the story of the eccentric Brigadier, it’s worth a refresh. By 1729, he was an ageing Jacobite has-been, noted for his spectacular military derring-do in the 1715 rebellion, matched only by his incompetence as a leader. By 1729 the septugenarian warrior lived in captivity in Edinburgh under bond. It is claimed that our hero tired of being offered the faddish new drink of tea, which he found weak and effeminate, and so went around informing his hosts that he had “had his tea” in order that he could instead move straight on to a harder, manlier drink.

Indeed, Mackintosh *does* write of tea in some disgust in 1729. He even writes the phrase “I am now asked if I have had my tea“. Case closed. Right? But the problem is, those 10 words are only a cherry-picked selection of what he fully wrote and without the rest, the context of what he was complaining about is gone and the meaning changes. What he wrote was, firstly:

• “Formerly I had been served with two or three substantial dishes of beef, mutton and fowl, garnished with their own wholesome gravy. I am not served up little expensive ashets with English pickles, Indian mangoes and anchovy sauces“

And secondly:

• “When I come to a friend’s house of a morning, I used to be asked if I had had my morning draught yet. I am now asked if I have had my tea and in lieu of the big quaich with strong ale and toast, and after a dram of good wholesome Scots spirits, there is now the tea-kettle put to the fire, the tea-table and silver and china equipage brought in, and marmalade and cream“

So what Borlum is actually complaining about is not about the coldness of his reception in Edinburgh, it’s quite the opposite – it’s all too nice. He is discontent that in the post-Union, Georgian capital of “North Britain”, Scottish culinary culture has been changed and gentrified by English influences and. Gone are hearty meat and drink, and in are delicate teas, condiments, scones and pleasantries. He is not being asked “You’ll have had your tea” so that his hosts don’t have to give him any, he’s being asked so that they can serve him the latest trends in conversational dining and drinking, and are most insistent on giving them to him even if he’d rather drink and belch!

That Googled explanation just doesn’t ring true – so how did it come to be on the internet as “fact”? If you read it on the internet it must be true, yes? Where does the source of this spurious claim originate? The earliest I can trace it back to is a single unreferenced line in an anonymous compendium of Edinburgh “facts” (many of them demonstrably dubious) on the Scotsman website some 20 years ago. Much of what is in the list is true, but an not insignificant amount is either not or is wishful thinking.

The following year, London-based travel writer Benedict Le Vay included a variation of this explanation in his book “Eccentric Edinburgh“, a travel-guide to the city from the “Eccentric” series by Chalfont St. Peter-based publisher Bradt Travel Guides. This series is a light-hearted “insiders guide” to cities, trying to find their “hidden corners and spooky stories” that others guides don’t cover. So it’s not a reference work by any stretch of the imagination, and ofference no provenance for this explanation.

The Mackintosh of Borlum trail goes cold for about a decade, resurfacing in the Scotsman’s online sister publication “i” in the best traditions of Johnston Press churnalism. The unverified story has now established itself as “fact”, and now propagates itself through blogs and social media with the respectable sounding references pointing (in good faith) to two newspapers (which should know better) and a well-selling travel book from an established author and publisher.

So if that is what the origins of “You’ll Have Had Your Tea” are not, then what are they? Well, the earliest I can find the phrase in print is in 1938, used by the sports journalist, columnist, playwright and comedic author and poet Albert Mackie, who had a particular love of vernacular patter. Edinburgh born and bred, but often working in Glasgow, he wrote a light-hearted essay entitled “The Pleasures of Edinburgh” in a book – called simply “Scotland” – edited by J. R. Allan and released to coincide with the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow in 1938.

But Mackie was not writing here in jest at his home city, rather in defence of it. He was pointing out that “You’ll Have Had Your Tea” was exactly the sort of jibe that a Glaswegian would come up with in their never-ending mission to let the whole world know they are the friendliest people on the planet. But we can’t credit him with conjuring the saying itself – only writing it down – as it’s clearly an established and recognised phrase at that time in Scotland by the way he refers to it. However I cannot find it printed before then in books or newspapers.

Of course, there are other cities in Scotland beyond Edinburgh and Glasgow (not that the denizens of either of those places would have you believe it), and the phrase pops up again next in the Dundee Courier in 1945, in a jokes column entitled “Heard on the Tram“, but with the butt of the joke extended to Aberdonians.

In 1953, the football writer Tom Nicholson – another son of Edinburgh – brought the saying up again in a Daily Record column called “Tom Nicholson Accuses / Charles Shankland Replies” where the form was for the pair to have amusing arguments over sport and Edinburgh vs. Glasgow relations. It appears intermittently thereafter in print, particularly in Glasgow’s Daily Record / Sunday Mail. In 1970 the latter’s columnist, novelist Jan Webster (1924-2002), attributed it to Scottish women in general as a phrase used when guests were being politely told not to stay too long. In 1978, Record writer Max Hodes published it in his “Official Scottish Joke Book“. Hodes wrote “funnies” for the paper and like Tom Nicholson and Albert Mackie, was an Edinburgh man, writing for a Glasgow publication. So perhaps the joke is really on Glasgow given it is Edinburgh men who popularised it in their papers.

It is’t just comedy writers who have imortalised the phrase however; the autobiographies of the prominent figures of Sir Ludovic Kennedy (1990) and Ian Hamilton KC (1994, who as a law student in 1950 was one of the gang who liberated the Stone of Destiny from Westminster back to Scotland) both use the phrase with a fondness when recalling their time in Edinburgh. Nevertheless the saying continues to pop-up endlessly in coffee table books about Edinburgh and Scottish culture, such as “Edinbuggers vs. Weegies” by Ian Black of 2003, which goes as far as suggesting a more modern ending to it (and who really actually says “Edinbuggers” anyway?)

A more outlandish – and even more improbable than Mackintosh of Borlum – provenance for the saying is Reginald Hill, who controversially attributes the saying to Yorkshire in one of his “a “Dalziel and Pascoe” novels! But – in print at least – he seems to be the only person making this particular claim. Most unusually, it has come to my attention (thank you to Al McVittie for this insight) that the phrase “You’ll Have Had Your Tea” appears in a 1974 episode of the childrens’ TV show Bagpuss, featuring Hamish the tartan pincushion and Tavish McTavish.

The saying was revitalised and spread to a wider audience in the 1990s and noughties by Graeme Garden (an Aberdonian) and the late, great, Barry Cryer in their “I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue” improv characters Hamish and Dougal, who always open their sketches with the saying. This resulted in a spin-off series called, imaginatively, “You’ll Have Had Your Tea“. The basic characters apparently date back to 1979, which coincidentally was when the Oxford Theatre Group ran a late-night Fringe review show in Edinburgh called… “You’ll Have Had Your Tea!“

So there isn’t any one, definitive source of this saying. It was definitely popularised and a recognised part of inter-city rivalry by the time it was first put in print in 1938 and Edinburgh men writing in the Scottish press kept it alive thereafter. But I can categorically state that it was not Mackintosh of Borlum who gave us the saying back in 1729 and if anything this is a salutary lesson in the dangers of unreferenced, anonymous “listicles” being published and republished by seemingly reputable sources and crystallising over time into hard “facts”.

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