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You Know What They Say... “I Don’t Know You From a Bar of Soap.” The earliest quotation is from the following cartoon by Stan Cross...

You Know WhatTheySay... “Ignorance is Bliss.” Ignorance is bliss is an expression that means it is better not to know a fact, that one is...

You Know WhatTheySay... "Money Can't Buy Happiness." The Origin of the phrase is unknown, but can be attributed to: "Money can buy...

It is a custom that has caught out every expat at one point or another: so why do Germans insist on looking each other in the eye when...

You Know WhatTheySay... “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” "The 1970 movie Love Story, based on the novel of the same name by...

You Know WhatTheySay… “What goes around, comes around.” and “What comes around, goes around.” ‘“What goes around comes around” or “as you...

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket is a proverb that means don’t concentrate all of your resources in one area, because if that...

You know WhatTheySay... “Blood is thicker than water.” What's the meaning of the phrase 'Blood is thicker than water'? By saying 'blood...