When you are ready to order, hit the SHOP NOW button and you will be taken to our on-line store. At age 10, Alice Liddell inspired Lewis Carroll to write his seminal book, Alices Adventures in Wonderland. The long and short: The gist or the most important part of something. Take your time to enjoy the slide show of stock items and previous custom pieces. Reading of Tempest In A Teapot at R-S Theatrics. The common weal: For the benefit or interest of the general public. The bigger they are, the harder they fall: It means that those with more power or at a higher position are at the risk of losing more and tend to suffer more as a result.
The be all and end all: This idiom comes from Shakespeare’s play Macbeth it means that something is the central and all-important part, or the final and ultimate outcome, of an action or situation. That ship has sailed: This idiom is used to say that you have missed an opportunity. That makes two of us: To show agreement with the speaker on something. That is the way the cookie crumbles: It means that things cannot always turn out like we want them to and as there is not much that we can do about it, we should not get upset. That and 50 cents will buy you a cup of coffee: It implies that something is worthless, for example when someone says that they got an A+ in a subject that really doesn’t have much scope, you can tell them, “So? That and 50 cents will buy you a cup of coffee.” Test the waters: Just as one puts one’s toes into the water first to see how cold it is before jumping in for a swim, this idiom means to first give something a try to see if it works or not before accepting or implementing it. Ten/Two a penny: When something is ten (or two) a penny, it is very common. This is by far the most common of the various forms of the idiom in the US, and the most common form overall. The media frenzy over the actors drunken behavior was a tempest in a teapot. Tempt fate/providence: To do something that involves great risk and most likely to have an unpleasant result. tempest in a teapot (plural tempests in teapots) A major fuss over a trivial matter. Tempest in a teapot: To make a big issue out of a small thing to exaggerate the seriousness of a situation and make things look worst than they are.
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