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Dec 1, 2016 · The idiomatic expression the kiss of death refers to: a fatal or destructive relationship or action; as in The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate. (Origin 1945-1950) (Random House Dictionary) Etymonline confirms the date of origin as 1944 an the Billboard as the possible source: Kiss of death in figurative ...
Jun 19, 2019 · Proves that it is correct are: movie "Til death do us apart" (2018) and various songs titled with "Apart". Proves that "Part" is correct: the actual oath, wiki and various songs titled with "Part". The problem with "Part" is it does not sounds as "cool" as "Apart" for me (personal preference), but at the same time I wouldn't do a shirt with incorrect spelling either.
The "kiss of death" doesn't really have any financial connotations and refers to an action rather than a personal quality - the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "a seemingly kind or well-intentioned action, look, association, etc., which brings disastrous consequences."
Dec 4, 2020 · Mehper C. Palavuzlar. 35.8k 60 163 213. 6. The correct form is "Till death us do part" and not "do us", (according to the link provided by Henry) – Benjol. Oct 25, 2010 at 8:30. 5. @Benjol: Right, but I think "do us" version is more common. A quick Google search brings 47,100 results for "Till death us do part" and 365,000 results for "Till ...
Mar 6, 2017 · The OP is not asking for a phrase meaning "close to death", they are asking for a phrase meaning "remaining time to death". It would help if the OP had provided an example sentence (as required for single-word-requests, {sigh}), but I'm fairly sure he wants to use something like "John's doctor predicted his {remaining time to death} was only 6 months".
Oct 6, 2014 · Feb. 26, 1937 J. C. will introduce a game called "Kiss The Donkey." and. Mar. 3, 1937 Georgie Hale will be honored at the "Kiss the Donkey" party Sunday in Leon & Eddie's. So, we have two ideas. Sometime in 1936-1937 there was a game called "Kiss the Donkey" and in early 1937 there was a "Kiss the Donkey" party.
Here are the earliest forms of "colder than a witch's kiss," "colder than a witch's teat," and "colder than a witch's tit" that a Google Books search turns up. The first found instance of (approximately) "colder than a witch's kiss" is in William Lindsay Gresham, Limbo Tower (1949), page 13 [snippet]: Frank Vitiello's voice complained, "Hey ...
Jan 19, 2019 · The origin of the idiom is the following: According to Etymology Online: 'A dead horse as a figure for something that has ceased to be useful is from 1630s;
Dec 9, 2016 · Database search results. The earliest match in a n Elephind search that explicitly identifies someone's ass as the conduit for blown smoke (in a slang sense) is from John Anderson, "Billie Carr: The 'Godmother' of Local Liberal Politics," in the [Houston, Texas] Rice Thresher (June 26 1975), the student newspaper at Rice University in Houston:
An Old Testament poem tells us that there is a time for everything under the sun; a time to give, a time to take, a time to heal, and a time to kill, etc. Calling something a killing time or killing moon would mean that somebody's or something's death is imminent and unavoidable.
