A road to Damascus moment: when you have a great and sudden change in your ideas or beliefs. It comes from the famous occasion when Saint Paul converted to Christianity while he was heading to Damascus to persecute the Christians. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark : used to describe corruption or a situation in which something is wrong. Dunkirk spirit : what people draw on when they pull together to get through a difficult time. The phrase came into use following the evacuation of allied troops across the English Channel by flotillas of pleasure boats, working barges and other civilian craft at the Battle of Dunkirk in Houston , we have a problem : used humorously to report any kind of problem.
In , Rep. Willard D. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me. The film was well-known and it's title was put to use by a journalist on the UK newspaper The Coventry Standard in April , in a story about a woman gymnast called Maureen Wallis. Wallis was due to be part of a group of gymnasts to travel to take part in a display in Vienna but twisted her ankle at the last minute.
The paper reported this with:. That is the first use that I can find of the phrase in its metaphorical sense, that is with the meaning 'it's all over', although it is quite possible that the journalist was making use of an expression that was already street slang. Ringo Starr used 'Goodnight Vienna' as the name of an album that he released in The title track was written by John Lennon. The lyrics of the song are ambiguous but they do seem to refer to the 'the inevitable happened' meaning of the phrase.
Again, Lennon didn't coin the phrase but its use as an album and song title brought it to a much wider audience. If she was to see you in that dopey shirt and yer face covered in Randolph Scotts! Members Current visitors. Interface Language.
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