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Now, Words and Their Stories with expressions using the word “sun.”
The first expression is about everything, everything under the sun. If you own a store that sold many different items, your advertisements could say you sell everything under the sun. This would not be exactly true, of course. But what would advertising be without some creative descriptions?
Here is another example: Let’s say you are talking with a friend you have not seen for a long time. The two of you could have a lot of catching up to do. So, you talk about everything under the sun.
Under the sun is an old expression—at least 3,000 years old. It means everywhere the sun shines. King Solomon of Israel used it in the Bible. He wrote that nothing under the sun is new. What has been will be again, he said, and what has been done will be done again.
If there is nothing new under the sun, there is nothing new anywhere.
New or old, few things can be hidden in the bright light of the sun.
That leads to another expression: a sunshine law. This law says that all
The first expression is about everything, everything under the sun. If you own a store that sold many different items, your advertisements could say you sell everything under the sun. This would not be exactly true, of course. But what would advertising be without some creative descriptions?
Here is another example: Let’s say you are talking with a friend you have not seen for a long time. The two of you could have a lot of catching up to do. So, you talk about everything under the sun.
Under the sun is an old expression—at least 3,000 years old. It means everywhere the sun shines. King Solomon of Israel used it in the Bible. He wrote that nothing under the sun is new. What has been will be again, he said, and what has been done will be done again.
If there is nothing new under the sun, there is nothing new anywhere.
New or old, few things can be hidden in the bright light of the sun.
That leads to another expression: a sunshine law. This law says that all