Common causes, cures for a persistent cough. Cough for a minute or two, and you may think something has gone down the wrong pipe.. Cough for a day or two, and you may think you've picked up a cold or the flu. After a week, bronchitis or allergies may come to mind.
Some ninety years ago Vladimir Lenin coined the phrase âuseful idiotâ and it originally described liberal Communist sympathizers in Western nations who, as the Soviet leader explained, would âsell us (Soviet Russia) the rope with which we will hang them (the West).â.
Anthony Burgess did much the same with A Clockwork Orange, as did George Orwell in 1984. The precedent goes back at least to Shakespeare himself, who coined more than a hundred new words and phrases in his plays, including There's the rub, lackluster, and silliness.. With that in mind, we decided to list some of our favorite slang words and phrases from the world of literature. FEWMETS.