Favourite English word/phrase?

Australia
June 22, 2009 9:47pm CST
JRR Tolkien famously wrote in his essay 'English and Welsh' that he believed 'cellar door' to be the most beautiful compound in the English language. Whether he coined the phrase or not is subject to a varying degree of speculation. What is your favourite phrase or word in English? Do you love a work because of its sound? Or its meaning? What words have really useful definitions, and what words have wonderfully unuseful ones? Can you use "redivivus" in a sentence? Except "i bet you dont know what redivivus means??" My personal favourite is sesquipedalian - which means given to or characterised by the use of long words.
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clorissa123
@clorissa123 (4926)
• United States
23 Jun 09
Gosh, I highly doubted I understand many vocabularies as you do. Anyway, my favorite phrase, maybe it is called slang "beauty is in the eyes of beholder". I truly believe it is a true statement. Everyone of us has different perspective toward things. Even how we perceive beauty in our own eyes. That truly define the difference in each one of us here.