Outstanding Drama SeriesER (NBC)Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama SeriesDennis Franz, NYPD BlueOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama SeriesKathy Baker, Picket FencesOutstanding Supporting Actor…
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(gutta serena). An old name for amaurosis. It was at one time thought that a transparent, watery humour, distilling on the optic nerve, would produce blindness without changing the…
As wet as a drowned rat—i.e. soaking wet. Drowned rats certainly look deplorably wet, but so also do drowned mice, drowned cats, and drowned dogs, etc. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…
or a Joe Miller. A stale joke; so called from the compilation of jokes under that nom de plume. (See Miller.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894JoeyJockey of…
means simply a thousand years. (Latin, mille annus.) In Rev. xx. 2 it is said that an angel bound Satan a thousand years, and in verse 4 we are told of certain martyrs who will come to…
A corruption of Milaner; so called from Milan, in Italy, which at one time gave the law to Europe in all matters of taste, dress, and elegance. Milliner was originally applied to the male…
