2011年1月28日 · Literally, strike home means to deal an effective blow, hit a vulnerable part, or wound critically or mortally. Figuratively, as in your example, it means to have the intended effect, to hit the mark, or to cause a sudden understanding.

2019年4月4日 · The construction strikes me [adj.] instead of the standard strikes me as [adj.] may occur in informal spoken English in Britain, America, or Australia, including, apparently, a fictional talking horse.

2013年12月12日 · What are some grandiloquent, or simply better, ways of expressing "an idea/thought suddenly came to me", or "an idea/thought struck me", or "I was struck by an idea/thought"?

'strike' means 'hit' and 'chord' is a string in a stringed instrument or a few notes in music and sometimes was used in a figurative way like 'heartstrings'. 'strike a chord' means literally 'hit a string', figuratively 'move your mind' and 'move your mind' can mean in a variety of ways depending on the context.

2012年3月14日 · In the sense of "click" (q.v.), i.e., succeed, strike home, make an impression, I believe this derives from the well-known carnival device rather than from a target with a bell in its center. I refer to the spring-action contrivance that you hit with a sledge hammer in an effort to send a small weight up a slide to a bell at the top.

So a strike in baseball comes from the attempt to strike the ball. It seems that it was used positively for a while--there are quotes referring to "great strikes". It looks like our current use of strike could be a shortening of foul strike--it only maintained its negative meaning. By the end of the 1800s, it still referred to the physical act ...

2016年9月18日 · Until recently all immigrants arrived by ship, and the Marine Corp provided much of the early administration. 'Sheeted home' in Australian usage suggests 'conclusively attributed'. The nautical sense is about finality or conclusion - all the sails are sheeted home (tied down) there's nothing to do until the wind or the ship's heading changes.

2011年1月23日 · The earliest form of the expression seems to have been "till the cow come home" from the late 1500s or early 1600s, with "till the cows come home" in use by 1738. The references I consulted agreed that the expression refers to cows coming back to the barn from the pasture either in the evening or in the morning, not to cows escaping the ...

In reference to my question about the meaning of “It’s one thing to dance like Fred Astaire, but Ginger did it backwards in high heels,” on the Time magazine’s article (June 29) of John Roberts’ ruling on Healthcare, I found the phrase, “strike the match” in the following sentence in the same article, “Roberts rules.”

2011年5月9日 · happy medium noun a satisfactory compromise : you have to strike a happy medium between looking like royalty and looking like a housewife. Etymonline says: Happy medium is the "golden mean," Horace's aurea mediocritas. So apparently it comes to us through classical scholarship.