Wished the ground would swallow me up - Idioms by The Free.

It is that moment in time when you wish the earth would open up and swallow you. The anxiety and discomfort felt during that time which may only last a few seconds feels like time has stood still. I remember so well when I had my most embarrassing moment. I was in Form 4 and it was during the school recess. The minute the bell rang for recess, I rushed to the toilet because I had been.

Ground swallow me up or GSMU is a phrase which sums up the overall desire to escape an embarrasing or awkward situation. While the request for a time-machine might seem a more dignified approach to being swallowed up by the ground which seems a cruel fate. GSMU is more fitting to identify feelings of desperation and guilt. for related topic see awkward, dig a hole and keep digging.

No, not even a reader of the Daily Telegraph could quite swallow that. England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly. But in any calculation about it one has got to take into account its emotional unity, the tendency of nearly all its inhabitants to feel alike and act together in moments of supreme crisis. It.

I'm married to the man who turned me down when I asked him out! Not to give you false hope or anything, but I remember so clearly how humiliated and small I felt; I avoided him for at least a year afterwards. In the end it turned out he'd been in the initial stages of seeing someone else, but they eventually split up and then the story of how we eventually got together is quite long and I won.

Most of us, who have survived through the middle school years, have had an embarrassing moment when we wished the earth would open up and swallow us, and I am no exception. I just had an embarrassing moment in my life because I accomplished ridiculous things to a teenage girl left me with a feeling of failure, but I got over it with a dance which helped heal the deflated emotion. In August 29.

Very soon the springtime came, and the sun warmed the earth. Then the swallow said farewell to Thumbelina, and she opened the hole in the ceiling which the mole had made. The sun shone in upon them so beautifully that the swallow asked her if she would like to go with him. She could sit on his back, he said, and he would fly away with her into the green woods. But she knew it would be sad for.

Everyone in class except me had their hands up trying to get a chance to be the first to impress the new teacher. He looked around and noticed I had not raised my hand. Slowly he walked towards where I sat, held my hand and said that I will be the one to solve it. I wished if the earth would open up and swallow me. The other students laughed loudly and started shouting that I should do it. The.

Poet and performer Brian Patten first made his name in the 1960s as one of the Liverpool Poets, along with Adrian Henri and Roger McGough. Their aim was to make poetry accessible and to bring it to new audiences. Their popular anthology The Mersey Sound published in 1967 has sold over 250,000 copies to date. Brian was born in Liverpool in 1946.

I thought I was immune to the Net. Then I got bitten by eBay. When I was a young man, traversing the ’70s in whatever post-hippie, pre-slacker mode I could manage, I made a substantial part of.

On the rare occasion that you swallow a razor blade, don't fret. The human body is more capable than you think. Acids are ranked on a scale from 0 to 14—the lower the pH level, the stronger the.

Outside the whale there is a genuine need for political fiction, for books that draw new and better maps of reality, and make new languages with which we can understand the world. Outside the whale we see that we are all irradiated by history, we are radioactive with history and politics; we see that it can be as false to create a politics-free fictional universe as to create one in which.