Well known phrases and sayings

[SparkOut]

That's not really helping much. Nor is it that I still can't seem to shake the letters into the correct order.

[Scurra]

S T W T R-T G

[SparkOut]

Now my mind is uselessly looking for another Ready-to-Go hyphen

[SparkOut]

Ah, well now I have swapped the opaque glasses for rose-tinted, I can see the world through them.

A D, A D

[Bunnylump]

A dollar a day?

[SparkOut]

The two D's are right, in the wrong order

[Bunnylump]

Oh, another dollar, another day?

[LAT]

I'm guessing the D's are still the wrong way round!

[Bunnylump]

Don't know, it's not a phrase I've ever heard - so just guessing randomly!

[LAT]

I only said that as we were told the D's were right but the wrong order. I wouldn't have got it but have since googled it.

[SparkOut]

Another Day, Another Dollar isn't a phrase I thought of as obscure.

[Scurra]

I don't think it's especially obscure. But (as ever) I am not a representative sample.

[Bunnylump]

Well, I'm not saying it's obscure. I'm saying I didn't know it, which is an entirely different thing!

[SparkOut]

Well set another one then

[LAT]

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it was obscure and it did in fact trigger a bell in my head but I was not being bright enough to get it.
Was very interested to read where the phrase originated though.

[Bunnylump]

I H G A C

[SparkOut]

Did you mean ISIHAC?
Maybe we should start a Mornington Crescent game thread.

[Bunnylump]

Well, I suppose it could be either! I'm obviously not as polite as you!

[SparkOut]

I call on Scurra again as "not representative sample" witness

[Scurra]

I'd have got ISIHAC instantly. But I'd imagine that IHGAC would technically be a more 'well-known' usage. (I'd probably use IHGAC in a puzzle, for example.)