Everyone to his own taste This phrase “Everyone to his own taste, as the farmer said when he kissed the cow” is a variation on an English folk saying that goes back at least to the mid 1500s. The version then current went like this: “Every man as he loveth, quoth the good man, whan he kyst his coowe.” A similar notion is contained in the well-known French proverb “Chacun à son gout” – “Everyone to his own taste.”

Hah! And I always thought it came from Mississippi for some reason...

Feet of clay This originated in Daniel 2:31-34, in which a figure in a dream of Nebuchadnezzar is described in this way: “This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his lets of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.” A stone struck “the feet that were iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors, and the wind carried them away.” The moral, of course, is that a fatal flaw can be the undoing of a man and his career.

I think I have only heard slammer and it seems to be just what I would have expected. I really enjoy this thread each morning- --thank you!