“Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly, lavender’s green, When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen . .” 17th century English folk song.
Lavender’s Blue
Category: English idioms
Pop Goes the Weasel (for BR)
Shaping Up
Shadows Of The Evening
“Now the day is over, night is drawing nigh; Shadows of the evening, steal across the sky”. (Sabine Baring-Gould 1834-1924)
Put Out More Flags
Put Out More Flags, the title of Evelyn Waugh’s novel (1942), comes from the saying of an anonymous Chinese sage, quoted and translated by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Living (1937).
Liquid Amber
“Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn”.
Alexander Pope 1709
Orange Crush
