cum laude: meaning “with honor” (literally “with praise”).

There are three types of honor, each with a Latin name: When an academic degree is awarded, a level of distinction can be noted depending on the degree of success achieved by the student. It’s always nice to meet a world leader who has bigger ears than me. He was there on official government business, and included a reference to Mickey Mouse in his speech:Īnd I confess, I am excited to see Mickey. In 2012, President Barack Obama visited Walt Disney World in Florida. You’ll get pie in the sky when you die 69 Disney souvenir feature : EARS The expression was coined by songwriter and labor activist Joe Hill in 1911 as a lyric in the hymn parody “The Preacher and the Slave”. We use the phrase “pie in the sky” to describe a ridiculously optimistic goal. 65 *Pastry that doesn’t live up to its hype? : PIE IN THE SKY “Schnorchel” comes from “Schnarchen”, the German for “snore”. The German slang was applied to an air-shaft used for submarines, due to its resemblance to a nose, in that air passed through it and it made a “snoring” sound. Our word “snorkel” comes from German navy slang “Schnorchel” meaning “nose, snout”.

Ontario is home to the nation’s capital of Ottawa as well as Toronto, Canada’s most populous city (and the capital of the province). In turn, Lake Ontario’s name is thought to be derived from “Ontari:io”, a Huron word meaning “great lake”. The Canadian province of Ontario takes its name from the Great Lake. It is the term “shortening” that gives us the words “shortbread” and “shortcake”. 57 *Shortbread that doesn’t crumble under pressure? : TOUGH COOKIE The term comes from the Yiddish “schmutz”, which is a slang word used in English for dirt, as in “dirt on one’s face”. “Smut” means “dirt, smudge” and more recently “pornographic material”. Regulation (reg.) 51 Indecent matter : SMUT “Stanza” is an Italian word meaning “verse of a poem”. It empties into the English Channel to the north, at the port city of Le Havre. The Seine is the river that flows through Paris. “Je ne sais quoi” is French for “I don’t know what”. 43 Certain something : AURAĪn aura (plural “aurae”) is an intangible quality that surrounds a person or thing, a “je ne sais quoi”. There is a suggestion that the term comes from the act of shaking dice, as some shakes result in great numbers, and some don’t. The idiomatic phrase “no great shakes” means “not very skilful”, as in “Bill is no great shakes at solving sports clues in the crossword”.

34 *Blended drinks that leave something to be desired? : NO GREAT SHAKES The term “tee” comes from the Scottish “teaz”, which described little heaps of sand used to elevate a golf ball for the purpose of getting a clean hit with a club. 33 Ball-bearing peg : TEEĪ tee is a small device on which, say, a golf ball is placed before striking it. “Deserere” in turn comes from “de” (undo) and “serere” (to join together). The verb “to desert” comes from the Latin “deserere”, which has the same meaning. To desert is to leave, without the intent to return. 27 Significant Civil War concern : DESERTION Well, that’s Mark Twain’s story … 21 First thing lost in the “For Want of a Nail” proverb : SHOEĪccording to Benjamin Franklin’s 1758 essay “The Way to Wealth”:Īnd for want of a horse the rider was lost Īll for want of care about a horse-shoe nail. This reversed “-AKERY” was read by a stranger, and he presumed that the sign gave the name of the camp, and read it as “YREKA”. Leaving it out to dry, all but the B could be seen through the canvas. Back when the area was a mining boomtown, a baker was preparing a canvas sign with the word “BAKERY”. There is, however, a story related by Mark Twain that the name “Yreka” comes from the word “bakery”. “Yreka” derives from the name for Mount Shasta (wáik’a) in the Shasta language, which translates as “North Mountain” or “White Mountain”. The California city of Yreka developed from a miners’ camp called Thompson’s Dry Diggings. That sucks the nurse asleep? 20 Northern California town that once had a palindromic bakery : YREKA Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool, With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate In William Shakespeare’s play “Antony and Cleopatra”, the heroine of the piece addresses the asp as she uses the snake to commit suicide: The first host of “Today” was Dave Garroway.

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