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2021-08-05 12:08
The man in the moon phrase
A human face or body that appears in your mind or imagination when you look at the moon.
My children are not fascinated by tales about the man in the moon.
As a child, I could see the man the moon, but now I can imagine different things when looking at the moon.
Said of someone who is considered unrealistic or ignorant.
You should have submitted your assignment yesterday. You are like the man in the moon.
Don't be the man in the moon. You should go out there and experience how real life works.
This phrase dates from the early fourteenth century. In Troilus and Criseyde Chaucer quotes, indirectly, a myth that a man who damaged the Sabbath was exiled to the moon. By the sixteenth century, however, this turn of phrase was linked with something so distant as to be unlikely (“as farre from her thought as the man that the rude people saie is in the moone,” Edward Hall, Chronicle of Richard III, ca. 1548).
Do you see anything wrong?
People are always inclined to flatter or please a rich man by laughing at his joke which may not be a very good one.
Everyone at the table always flatter the boss by praising his humor. A rich man's jokes are always funny.
