rock of ages イディオム
for ages
for a very long time.
freeze wages
keep wages the same, not increase wages, dig in their heels To control spending, the board is going to freeze our wages - no salary increases for one year.
law of averages|averages|law
n. phr. The idea that you can't win all the time or lose all the time.
The Celtics have won 10 games in a row but the law of averages will catch up with them soon.
stagestruck
adj. Desirous of becoming an actor or actress; enamored of the acting profession.
Milly is so stagestruck that she waits for actresses at the stage door after each performance to get their signatures.
law of averages
law of averages The idea that probability will influence all occurrences in the long term, that one will neither win nor lose all of the time. For example,
If it rains every day this week, by the law of averages we're bound to get a sunny day soon. This colloquial term is a popular interpretation of a statistical principle, Bernoulli's theorem, formulated in the late 1600s.
wages of sin, the
wages of sin, the The results or consequences of evildoing, as in
She ate all of the strawberries and ended up with a terrible stomachache—the wages of sin, no doubt. This expression comes from the New Testament, where Paul writes to the Romans (6:23): “The wages of sin is death.” Today it is often used more lightly, as in the example.
rock of ages
An absolute antecedent of strength. The appellation was originally a religious one, a adaptation from the Hebrew in the Bible (Isaiah 26:4), which the King James Version has as “everlasting strength.” It after was abnormally authentic as God, religious faith, and salvation. The appellation became broadly accepted through a aria of that name appear in Gospel Magazine in 1775. Its author, Augustus Montague Toplady, was acclamation Jesus back he wrote “Rock of Ages, broken for me, let me adumbrate myself in Thee.” Subsequently, the appellation was sometimes acclimated added agilely to call any awful reliable antecedent of support.Learn more: age, of, rock