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A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
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between a rock and a hard place

US origin. The earliest known printed reference is Dialect Notes V, 1921:

"To be between a rock and a hard place, ..to be bankrupt. Common in Arizona in recent panics; sporadic in California."

The 'recent panics' referred to in that citation are undoubtedly the events surrounding the Bisbee deportations of 1917. In Bisbee, Arizona, in the early years of the 20th century, a dispute between copper mining companies and mineworkers developed. In 1917, the workers, some of whom had organized in labour unions, approached the company management with a list of demands for better pay and conditions. These were refused and subsequently many workers at the Bisbee mines were forcibly deported to New Mexico.

It's tempting to surmise, given that the mineworkers were faced with a choice between harsh and underpaid work at the rock-face on the one hand and unemployment and poverty on the other, that this is the source of the phrase.

From www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/62900.html

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make my day

Go ahead make my day.
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Actually a very friendly cat.

Uploaded on Jan 4, 2010

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150-500 HSM sigma test shot

I went out today to test the sigma 150-500 HSM lens. No birds to be seen except for this crow making tracks on the snow. Very little editing was done and this crow was shot at 500mm.

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Compassion

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

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