Milestones!!!
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85135)
Shingle Springs, California
July 24, 2009 10:51am CST
No, I'm not posting about my star or my earnings or whatever. I'm just messing with your heads again.
From the free dictionary:
[i]mile·stone (mlstn)
n.
1. A stone marker set up on a roadside to indicate the distance in miles from a given point.
2. An important event, as in a person's career, the history of a nation, or the advancement of knowledge in a field; a turning point.[/i]
Here's a lovely example of a term that was originally intended to mean one specific thing, ie a road marker in miles. But now it's more commonly used for something else entirely, ie some kind of important event, goal reached, etc.
Do you have any favorite expressions that don't quite mean what they originally did?
Happy Friday everyone!
5 people like this
12 responses
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
24 Jul 09
How about reference to a quare meal' It literaly was a square meal served on a square wooden plate. You always give post hard questions on Fridays! And I know that I have spelled literally wrong but my pc is acting up and when I went to chnage the letters it kept gobbling up the other ones. Friday? Have a good one.It's doing it again. The word should read square but the S is obvioulsy still on superman's Chest! Oh I am still so hot. 5 days without carbs and haven't lost a pound.
1 person likes this
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Jul 09
Oh gosh your pc has gremlins, better give them the day off!
Sorry, I'm not trying to ask hard questions on Friday, I just post whatever comes into my crazy mind. :-)
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Jul 09
Hm, next discussion, "why do I come up with this stuff on Fridays?"
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
24 Jul 09
Yes, but it is on Fridays that you come up with 'let's write poetry' etc. Excellent post
1 person likes this
@tamarafireheart (15384)
•
24 Jul 09
Hi dawnald,
You are so right about all this but at the moment I can't think of a single thing as I am just rushing here as I am going out, won't be back till 10.00, don't wnat to go out but have. See ya. hugs.
Tamara
1 person likes this
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Jul 09
Oh well maybe you'll see something that will trigger a great response while you're out.
I remember getting REAMED on MoronChat because I left a response kind of like this one. boy am I glad I"m here and not there!
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Jul 09
Jimbo's nice but I had a little problem with Chris, the Admin. lol
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Jul 09
I like the look here better. But at least over there you know who the Admin and mods are. Over here they're kind of mysteriously invisible. Things get deleted and you don't always know why. Over there they tell you (but not always nicely lol).
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
24 Jul 09
I remember the time when "spanking the monkey" was in reference to disciplining a troublesome chimpanzee during the days when they were popularly used in TV commercials and the like. What the heck happened to change its context you reckon??? 
1 person likes this
They'd do anything to get some spanking relief at times I think.
@scarlet_woman (23465)
• United States
25 Jul 09
"einstein"
that isn't a compliment at all where i live.
i don't know how it became an insult exactly,but it's usually used on people who do stupid things in traffic.
that isn't a compliment at all where i live.
i don't know how it became an insult exactly,but it's usually used on people who do stupid things in traffic. 1 person likes this
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
24 Jul 09
IT is just a saying i have heard all my life. have u never heard it?
1 person likes this
@yezhanjun043 (100)
• China
25 Jul 09
There are,ah,of course.My life there are many things milestones such as graduating from college,and is a new miestone in the first subgraduation work out is a new milestone in that they can earn their own living by.
1 person likes this
@GardenGerty (157837)
• United States
24 Jul 09
This discussion is no piece of cake (meaning it is not overly easy, nothing to do with baked goods), so I will have to sleep on it.(Not literally, I will think awhile. I will not print it and put it under my pillow) Looking at some of the answers you have, I see a lot of words and phrases that qualify.
1 person likes this
@ElicBxn (63252)
• United States
24 Jul 09
I always like the original meaning, and on our interstates, out in the country, they have mile "markers" still, tho they are just little metal signs with a number on them. I remember seeing real mile "stones" in parts of the east coast and when we traveled in Europe.
1 person likes this
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
24 Jul 09
The weak-end - isn't that why we need two days off? 
1 person likes this
@wiggins6 (61)
• United States
24 Jul 09
How about "getting back to your roots".
although there are several meaning to the word root in general isn't this the most basic meaning
noun- a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radical and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
We use the phrase "getting back or going back to your roots" to discuss learning about family history, or going to a place where your ancestors are from, etc etc about family history.
Milestones is a very good one! :)
1 person likes this
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Jul 09
Getting back to your roots = not coloring your hair? 
