Okay, I have heard alot of questions that I can't seem to answer on my own. So I'm here trying to get your help
"Cute as a button" Is that supposed to be a compliment? Since when are buttons cute?
Are marbles made of marble? Why did Yankee Doodle name the feather in his hat Macaroni?If an atheist has to go to court, do they make him swear on the Bible?Why isn't chocolate considered a vegetable, if chocolate comes from cocoa
beans, and all beans are a vegetable?Why can't you get a tan on your palms?
Why aren't safety pins as safe as they say they are?You know that little black box in planes that never break or burn when a plane crashes? Why isn't the whole plane made of that metal?Buttons used to be cute.
The 'cats eye' marbles resemble the patterns on marble stone.
2. macaroni adj.-
Synonym for "cool". Derived from the Oxford English Dictionary original definition of an 18th century dandy who affected mannerisms of Continental Europe. "Stuck a feather in his (Doodle's) cap and called it macaroni."
Yes
It's as vegetable as onion powder and choclate has very little cocoa in it, as it's mostly butter, milk and sugar.
Your palms aren't exposed as much as the rest of your body, and most of the skin is dead/calloused so that it can't tan.
They're safe when they're closed. It's a pin when it's open.
Too expensive.
If the sky is the limit, then what is space, over the limit?
Are children who act in rated 'R' movies allowed to see them?
When French people swear do they say pardon my English?
Why is the 0 on a phone after 1 and not before 1?
If you were under house arrest and you lived in a mobile home, wouldn’t you be able to go anywhere you want?
Term. Not to be taken literally (even though sky = space)
Yes, if accompanied by an adult.
They don't say that at all. French have had a reputation to swear, so it's become a phrase English people use.
Digits. 12345667890, and it'd be akward if it was before it.
House arrest has a specific location you can't leave, doesn't always have to be just your house.
Why is it called 'after dark', when it is really after light?
Why is it the TWELVE days of Christmas when there is only one day of Christmas?
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car, he sticks his head out the window!
How can someone "draw a blank"?