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May 23, 2014 · A song entitled Water Under the Bridge, written by Paul Francis Webster, Lew Pollack and performed by Fred Waring. The title was suggested by Ed Sullivan. The first line of the chorus begins . We kissed and love flowed thru my heart like the water under the bridge
Nov 21, 2016 · As @WS2 has alluded to in comments Water Under the bridge is an idiom meaning . problems that someone has had in the past that they do not worry about because they happened a long time ago and cannot now be changed: Yes, we did have our disagreements but that's water under the bridge now. However, sometimes there is not any water under the bridge
Aug 8, 2017 · The earliest form of the phrase is water has flowed under the bridge appearing in 1858 according to OED. They also suggest comparing it to the French expression "il passera bien de l'eau sous le pont", lit. ‘much water will pass under the bridge’ (1842 or earlier).
Nov 1, 2016 · I was watching Dumb and Dumber, and Lloyd said "Water under the fridge" instead of "Water under the bridge" ( That's all water under the fridge now, Har. Think of the bright side. You're finally getting to meet her, and you never had to change all those poopie diapers )
To the other side of; across: strolled over the bridge. c. Across the edge of and down: fell over the cliff. 3. On the other side of: a village over the border. [(b) above] Looking up the article gives some idea of the complexities of usages of just this one preposition, with temporal and then more derivative, ending with peripheral, usages:
Sep 7, 2011 · “Under the weather rail” seems still more plausible, but I couldn’t find any attestations of “feeling” “under the weather rail” or like expressions. It makes it hard to imagine that “under the weather” is merely a shortening. There are some early attestations of “under the weather” in Beyond These Voices (1800) and a Rose v.
Apr 10, 2015 · "A pier is a raised structure, including bridge and building supports and walkways, typically supported by widely spread piles or pillars. The lighter structure of a pier allows tides and currents to flow almost unhindered, whereas the more solid foundations of a quay or the closely spaced piles of a wharf can act as a breakwater, and are consequently more liable to silting.
The literal meaning of having something under your belt is having it in your stomach, but it’s probably more frequently used figuratively, to mean having acquired something, often intellectual. For example, the OED has these two supporting citations, from the English novelists P G Wodehouse (1954) and John Wain (1962):
Apr 19, 2012 · The earliest use in print I found of the exact phrase "flip the bird" or "flipped the bird" or "flipping the bird" is from a 1967 Broadside (Volume 6, Issues 17-26).
Aug 5, 2011 · Changing the water to feces just makes the situation much worse because it very likely eliminates any chances one might have of swimming to shore (I wouldn't want to try to swim through THAT, but water would still be worth a try if the situation warranted it).
