Charles Dudley Warner

(1829—1900), "My Summer in a Garden"

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

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Charles Dudley Warner

(1829-1900), in the Hartford Courant ca. 1890 (often attributed incorrectly to Mark Twain) Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. www.sky-net-eye.com

shoot one's wad

[shoot one's wad] {v. phr.} {slang}, {colloquial} 1. To spend all of one's money. * /We've shot our wad for the summer and can't buy any new garden furniture./ 2. […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

garden apartment

[garden apartment] {n.} An apartment with a garden near it. * /The couple live in a garden apartment./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

Indian summer

[Indian summer] {n. phr.} A dry and warm period of time late in the fall, usually in October. * /After the cold and foggy weather, we had a brief Indian […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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Brendan Gill

(1914-1997) U.S. U.S. writer Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

моя хата с краю

[моя хата с краю] {informal} {adv. phr.} [mo`ya `hata s `kraju] {literally} my hut is on the periphery. ~I don't […]

hot rod

[hot rod] {n.}, {informal} An older automobile changed so that it can gain speed quickly and go very fast. * /Hot rods are […]