man-of-war.. every thing in its place, and there is a place for every thing. 1855 T. C.
HALIBURTON Nature & Human Nature I. vi. There was a place for everything, and
everything was in its place. 1928 D. L. SAYERS Lord Peter views Body x. ‘I thought you
were rather partial to anatomical specimens.’ ‘So I am, but not on the breakfast-table. “A
place for everything and everything in its place,” as my grandmother used to say.’ 2002
A. VANNEMAN Sherlock Holmes and Giant Rat of Sumatra ix. 80 The sailor’s apothegm
—‘a place for everything, and everything in its place’—guided us, until at length
everything was stowed away.. orderlinessThere’s no PLACE like homeCf. HESIOD Works & Days l. 365 there’s no place like home.1571 T. TUSSER Husbandry (rev. ed.) H1V Though home be but homely, yet
huswife is taught, That home hath no fellow to such as haue aught. 1823 J. H. PAYNE
Clari I. i. ‘Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s
no place like home.’ 1939 E. F. BENSON Trouble for Lucia xi. ‘What a joy to have it
back at Mallards again!’.. ‘No place like home is there, dear?’ 2002 Spectator 16 Mar. 26
And then there is the tortoise who refused to come to Zeus’ party, arguing that there was
no place like home. So Zeus angrily condemned him to carry his house with him
wherever he went. content and discontent; homeplace see also LIGHTNING never strikes the same place twice; there is a TIME and place
for everything; a WOMAN’S place is in the home.
plague see PLEASE your eye and plague your heart.plant see it is not SPRING until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies; WALNUTS
and pears you plant for your heirs.
He who PLANTS thorns should not expect to gather rosesArabic proverb; a version of as you SOW, so you reap.1883 J. PLATT Piatt’s Essays 49 He has got it into his head, with Pope, that ‘Man
never is, but always to be, blest.’ This view of life must be reversed. Men must realize
that ‘he that plants thorns will not gather roses.’ 1971 D. FLAKSER Marxism, Ideology