XamberB Wrote:HI,
Has anyone read Harbingers yet? It's $66 on Amazon. Guess I'll have to bite the bullet and buy it, but that's expensive.
Hazel
Welcome to the board, XamberB!
Hmmm.....bite the bullet and buy it...? Is that metaphor or something else? :confused:
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Hazel, yer shekels will be well spent. It is =superior= fictioneering.WAIT...................WAIT A MINUTE.....................Bluesman is advocating Amazon?? :confused: Did my eyes deceive me...........is it true.....:eek:
And welcome XAmberB....order/read the book..you will not be disappointed.
EWMAN
cobalt79 Wrote:WAIT...................WAIT A MINUTE.....................Bluesman is advocating Amazon?? :confused: Did my eyes deceive me...........is it true.....:eek:
And welcome XAmberB....order/read the book..you will not be disappointed.
oh...oh...poor bluesman did not understand...blues thought point of information only...cobalt's eyes good...oh...bluesman's eyes bad....bad bluesman's eyes...bad, bad bluesman...bluesman so ashamed...bluesman reach for pistol to redeem honor...but pistol is in pawn shop...lucky bluesman!...maybe not so bad bluesman...
Kenji Wrote:Hmmm.....bite the bullet and buy it...? Is that metaphor or something else? :confused:"Bite the bullet" is slang for facing a painful situation bravely. It comes from the days before anesthesia was invented, when people in America supposedly bit on a bullet to help them stand the pain. I guess spending $66 for a book could be considered a pain in the wallet.
Brett
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BrettM Wrote:"Bite the bullet" is slang for facing a painful situation bravely. It comes from the days before anesthesia was invented, when people in America supposedly bit on a bullet to help them stand the pain. I guess spending $66 for a book could be considered a pain in the wallet.
Brett
Brett, your explanation is exactly right. But I'm having trouble picturing it. Sure, if you're intense pain, you bite on something. But why a bullet?
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Brett, your explanation is exactly right. But I'm having trouble picturing it. Sure, if you're intense pain, you bite on something. But why a bullet?I've heard it suggested that the origin was the battlefield, and that soft lead bullets were about the handiest thing around for a wounded soldier to bite on when the surgeon needed to hack on him.
Brett
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BrettM Wrote:"Bite the bullet" is slang for facing a painful situation bravely. It comes from the days before anesthesia was invented, when people in America supposedly bit on a bullet to help them stand the pain. I guess spending $66 for a book could be considered a pain in the wallet.
Brett
Thanks for explanation, Brett!
But if that person who bite the bullet has weak teeth, their teeth would break...ugh! That's more painful!:eek:
XamberB Wrote:Foiled again! Yer onto me gov. Have you read any of the Crais books? Joe Pike is another of my favorite fictional characters
Hazel Stone
Intrepid Girl Engineer
No, I've never read Crais books. Sorry...
Joe Pike is the guy like a Repairman Jack?
BrettM Wrote:I've heard it suggested that the origin was the battlefield, and that soft lead bullets were about the handiest thing around for a wounded soldier to bite on when the surgeon needed to hack on him.
Brett
Lead is =relatively= soft, as far as metals go. But why not a piece of leather, or wadded-up piece of cloth? Those items couldn't have been uncommon on the battlefields we're talking about.:confused: