ship Archives - Small Things Count https://smthingscount.com/tag/ship/ Making a More Loving World/Free Books Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:56:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 A By-and-Large Day https://smthingscount.com/2018/06/13/a-by-and-large-day/ Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:56:10 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=6995 I’m feeling word-ish today. Which means that you get some (what I think is interesting) background on a phrase we hear often, “by and large.”

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]]> Balls on Brass Monkeys https://smthingscount.com/2017/09/29/balls-on-brass-monkeys/ Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:33:47 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=6286 Stop teetering guiltily in public when you hear the term “cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey.”  It doesn’t refer to

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]]> To Lighten Up, I’ll “Break the Ice” https://smthingscount.com/2014/04/09/to-lighten-up-ill-break-the-ice/ Wed, 09 Apr 2014 18:10:25 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=2683 After two very serious days of blogs, I need to lighten up a bit.  To do so, I offer another origin of an often-used phrase, “break

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