Down East (it's two words, per Webster) came into usage in the late 1700s and early 1800s in the Age of Sail. Ships sailing from Boston to Maine in the late spring through early fall, the prime sailing season, when the prevailing winds were from the southwest, would sail down wind and east to reach Maine. Thus Down East.
See also, the explanation at Down East, the magazine of Maine.
they played baseball
They play soccer and stuff!
the united states has a major role in world affairs because when foreign have national problems, they come and usually depend on the united states to fix it. The united states would be like a main character in a play involving the whole world.
what games did hupa indian tribes play
they did not play at all they worked
The saying "Beware the ides of March came from William Shakespeare's famous play, "Julius Caesar."
"with the play" is the prepositional phrase.
The verb is "play" and the verb phrase is "can play."
This phrase is usually used when there is an unknown future in an endeavor. To "play it by ear" means to take things as they come, and plan things along the way, as opposed to having a set plan from start to finish.
The phrase "Be liked and you will never want" come's from Arthur Millers play, "Death of a Salesman". The main character, Will Loman, said this phrase.
Merry Wives of Windsor. It's the same play that gave us "the world's my oyster".
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The quotation is actually "all that glisters is not gold" and it comes from The Merchant of Venice.
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This phrase is literal, no symbology. In opposition to action by plan, script, text or even agreement, image is musical activity without adherance to composition, intuitive.It deals with playing the piano.
The phrase is used to explain an understanding of something, if what you're supposed to do is clear. A person would respond saying "Crystal clear" which is a play on words because crystals are clear as in transparent.
Shakespeare did not use the phrase "a boiling idiot". You are probably thinking of "a blinking idiot", which comes from The Merchant of Venice.