In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
Very nice afternoon and evening!
DjColburn: Sushi night! #foodporn http://t.co/kF8h1OC
and learned:
- three sheets to the wind -- basically telling someone they walk like a badly build windmill.
- hold a candle to -- saying someone is not worthy of even apprenticing to someone else (hold the candle while they work)
- the whole nine yards -- all 27 feet of bullets for a gun, but this one seems to be an apocryphal etymology, as that is an anyhow unlikely World War II origin and the phrase doesn't start to get used until well into the Vietnam war era.