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The name "Jack Sprat" was used of people of small stature in the 16th century. [1] This rhyme became an English proverb from at least the mid-17th century. [1] It appeared in John Clarke's collection of sayings in 1639 in the form: [1] Jack will eat not fat, and Jull doth love no leane. Yet betwixt them both they lick the dishes cleane.
Dairy cattle grazing in Germany. In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other forages into meat, milk, wool and other animal products, often on land that is unsuitable for arable farming.
Three Little Kittens. " Three Little Kittens " is an English language nursery rhyme, probably with roots in the British folk tradition. The rhyme as published today however is a sophisticated piece usually attributed to American poet Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787–1860). With the passage of time, the poem has been absorbed into the Mother Goose ...
Grazing (behaviour) Red kangaroo grazing. Grazing is a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on low-growing plants such as grasses or other multicellular organisms, such as algae. Many species of animals can be said to be grazers, from large animals such as hippopotamuses to small aquatic snails. Grazing behaviour is a type of feeding ...
Songwriter (s) unknown. " If wishes were horses, beggars would ride " is a proverb and nursery rhyme, first recorded about 1628 in a collection of Scottish proverbs, [1] which suggests if wishing could make things happen, then even the most destitute people would have everything they wanted. [2] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20004.
Chapulines and chili flavored peanuts at an artisanal food market in Colonia Roma, Mexico City. Chapulines, plural for chapulín ( Spanish: [tʃapuˈlin] ⓘ ), are grasshoppers of the genus Sphenarium that are commonly eaten in certain areas of Mexico. The term is specific to Mexico and Central America, and derives from the Nahuatl word ...
Its first goal: To make people rich and happy. (List of people attached.) Putin is holding a press conference. The first journalist stands up: – I am from the Washington Post. What do you say about the mass graves and the disrespect of human rights in Chechnya? – Putin: Next question. The second journalist stands up: – I am from the Daily ...
Touch grass A way of telling someone to "go outside", usually after said person is believed to have been on social media for too long. Believed to have originated in 2015, before experiencing a resurgence in 2020-2021. "Yeah, he needs to go touch grass." Tweaking To be acting strangely or think you're hallucinating.