Lists of Monoaesthetic Mixtures

Heat

Even thus did we bore the red hot beam into his eye, till the boiling blood bubbled all over it as we worked it round and round, so that the steam from the burning eyeball scalded his eyelids and eyebrows, and the roots of the eye sputtered in the fire.

— Homer, Odyssey (2010)

Hot~cold (7): a cold day in hell, cold hands warm heart, blow hot and cold, a snowball's chance in hell, feed a cold starve a fever, roast snow in a furnace, freezer burn, (53): Dante's half-frozen devil, A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost, Red Hot Ice by Frank Kane, Cold Fire by Dean Koontz, Cold Fire by Tamora Pierce, "Cold Fire" by Rush, the hot and cold game, the cold fire breathing Japanese chicken monster Basan, Wikipedia lists 6 books, 8 films, 3 games, 6 albums and 9 songs names “Fire and Ice,” four films with the name Hot Ice, 11 songs named “Hot and Cold” and a racehorse named “Frozen Fire.”

Thou shalt see the spring which boils, though the water is colder than marble.

—Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain, the Knight of the Lion (2018)

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.

—The Bible, The Revelation of Saint John the Divine 3:15–16 (Bartlett 2024)

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (Bartlett 2022)

Hot~solid (18): fire and brimstone, hot stuff, hot shit, burn your bridges, strike while the iron is hot, burn to the ground, hot off the grill, scorched earth, firewall, hot and heavy, like a cat on a hot tin roof, like a cat on hot bricks, dumpster fire, firing on all cylinders, boilerplate, guns blazing, third rock from the sun, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, (24): the flaming dragon’s pearls in Chinese art, mythological flaming swords, the burning bridge Bifröst, Burning Man, "Of Bronze - and Blaze" and "Talk not to me of Summer Trees" by Emily Dickinson, the Irish fairy tale "Fire on the Mountain," the flaming skeleton horse Bakotsu, the comic book character Hot Stuff the Little Devil, Wikipedia lists five films and 10 songs with the name “Hot Stuff.”

Hot~static (7): a dead heat, like death warmed over, three hots and a cot, hotbed, slow burn, slowly boiling a frog, ceasefire, (23): the kenning "flame-farewelled" meaning death, Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling, "How good his Lava Bed" and "'Twas here my summer paused" by Emily Dickinson, “Death and Fire” by Paul Klee, Wikipedia lists 3 films and 15 novels named Dead Heat.

Hot~order (1): spring cleaning, (1): Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks.

Hot~dark/cool colors (4): the heat of the night, burning the midnight oil, what in blue blazes, burn with a low blue flame, (21): "A shady friend - for Torrid days" and "Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple" by Emily Dickinson, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare, the Irish fairy tale "Black Stairs on Fire," "Black Friar of the Flame" by Isaac Asimov, the “blue heron fire” yokai Aosaginohi, Wikipedia lists four albums and ten songs named either “Heat of the Night” or “In the Heat of the Night.”

Water is best. But gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

— Pindar, Olympian Odes (Bartlett 2022)

Try to set the night on fire.

—“Light My Fire,” The Doors (Bartlett 2022)

Hot~quiet (2): The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker.

And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

—The Bible, Kings 19:12

Hot~down (6): fire down below, under fire, under the sun, drop it like it's hot, simmer down, (31): the floor is lava game, the fire dance Anastenaria, Gloger's rule, Wikipedia lists four films, two novels, seven albums and 13 songs named “Under the Sun.”

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

—The Bible, King James version, Ecclesiastes 1:9

Hot~in (28): hellhole, burning a hole in your pocket, burst into flame, piping hot, too hot to handle, in your hot little hand, in the hot seat, to hell in a hand basket, feeding the fire, packing heat, in heat, holy hell, depths of hell, pits of hell, caught in the crossfire, ears are burning, fire in the belly, go up in flames, come to a boil, housewarming, come under heat, (13): the chariot of fire, the flaming Ghost Ship of Northumberland Strait, the Solar barge of Ra, the fire theft motif, fire swallowing, the flaming chalice, the band name Canned Heat, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling, "Spring comes on the World," "Would you like summer? Taste of ours" and "The Lamp burns sure - within" by Emily Dickinson, “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” by Pink Floyd.

Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us?

—The Gospel According to Saint Luke 24:32 (Bartlett 2022)

This night of no moon
There is no way to meet him.
I rise in longing—
My breast pounds, a leaping flame,
My heart is consumed in fire.

— Ono no Komachi, Kokinshu (Bartlett 2022)

Hot~round (12): the boiling point, hothead, a snowball's chance in hell, great balls of fire, hot as balls, hot potato, a hotspot, firing on all cylinders, hell on wheels, hotter than a hooker's doorknob on nickel night, circle of hell, heap coals of fire on my head, (50): the name of Odin "Flaming Eye," the fire-wheel of Nezha, the Greek wheel of fire, Hot Wheels, the bird genus fire-eye (Pyriglena), the fire-eyed goby (Yoga pyrops), the fire-eyed diucon (Pyrope pyrope), Great Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis, the volcanic Ring of Fire, “Ring of Fire” by Johnny Cash, the blazing eyes of Athena, Wikipedia lists four films, seven characters, two bands, one album and five songs named “Fireball,” and six films or episodes, four books or novels, a band, two albums, three songs, a type of sunflower, a drinking game, an amusement ride and a ring of the Elvenkind of Tolkien named “Ring of Fire.”

Hot~small (4): hot little number, it got a little heated, a little fire is quickly trodden out, a little pot is soon hot, (3): Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere, "To my small Hearth His fire came" by Emily Dickinson, "Little Cinders (Senicitas)" by Salvador Dali.

Hot~few (2): hell’s half acre, one swallow does not make a spring, (1): "The One who could repeat the Summer day” by Emily Dickinson.

Hot~back (2): on the back burner, backfire.

Fluidity

Fluid~cold (10): in cold blood, a cold spell, pour cold water on, wind chill, cold soup, the water cooler effect, freeze your blood, keep your breath to cool your porridge, piss on ice, blow your cool, (11): the kenning "icicle of blood" meaning sword, "As if some little Arctic flower" and "Some, too fragile for winter winds" by Emily Dickinson, the Irish fairy tale "The Snow, the Crow, and the Blood," The Winds of Winter by George R. R. Martin, Wikipedia lists one band, four songs and a comic book character named “Cold Blood.”

A cold rain starting
And no hat - 
So?

—Matsuo Basho, "A cold rain starting"

As cool as the pale wet leaves
of lily-of-the-valley
She lay beside me in the dawn.

— Ezra Pound, "Alba"

Fluid~solid (54): blood and iron, a diamond in the sky, every cloud has a silver lining, a melting pot, castles in the air, wet your beak, a watched pot never boils, a well-oiled machine, hard liquor, a stiff drink, a stiff breeze, a hard rain, cast stones against the winds, not my cup of tea, like getting blood from a stone, blood diamond, it makes my blood curdle, a smoking gun, a tempest in a teapot, sweating bullets, smoke and mirrors, raining pitchforks, ride hard and put away wet, soaked to the bone, bleed me dry, gravy train, the same fire that melts the butter hardens the egg, bread and butter, a greasy spoon, god's bloody nails (divine/fluid~solid), spill out into the streets (fluid/out~in/solid), up shit creek, before the ink was dry, from soup to nuts, like a cow peeing on a flat rock, piss on your chips, happy as a clam in butter sauce, milking me dry, scrape the poison from the bones, the land of milk and honey, cloud-cuckoo land, blowhard, milkbone, milk toast, land a blow, able to fog a mirror, (28): decorative water fountains, mermaids tears (sea glass), gargoyles, the wind gem of Kukulkan, the smoking mirror of Tezcatlipoca, Hard Rain (Bob Dylan album), the kenning "blood ember" meaning an axe, ceromancy, the ring Draupnir (which drips more rings), the Bleeding Lance (which drips blood from its point), kissing the Blarney Stone, rain chains, lava lamps, Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell, Mountains Oceans and Giants by Alfred Döblin, Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, "A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree," "How many Flowers fail in Wood," "Before the ice is in the pools," "The Mountains stood in Haze" and "How the old Mountains drip with Sunset" by Emily Dickinson, "To the Thawing Wind" by Robert Frost, the folktale "Stones soup," "Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day" by Anne Brontë, anointment of Adam’s skull by the blood of Christ, Jacob’s anointing of the pillar.

If thou wilt take of the water in the basin and spill it upon the stone, thou shalt see such a storm come up that not a beast will remain within this wood; every doe, star, deer, boar, and bird will issue forth. For thou shalt see such lightning-bolts descend, such blowing of gales and crashing of trees, such torrents fail, such thunder and lightning, that, if thou canst escape from them without trouble and mischance, thou wilt be more fortunate than ever any knight was yet.

—De Troyes, Chrétien. Yvain, the Knight of the Lion (2018)

A land flowing with milk and honey.

—The Bible, Exodus 3:8

Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly.

—The Bible, Numbers 20:11

Thou shalt see the mountains that thou supposest fixed, passing by like clouds.

—The Koran 27:88 (Bartlett 2022)

Winter seclusion -
Listening, that evening,
To the rain in the mountain.

— Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1828

Fluid~static (13): cry yourself to sleep, still waters run deep (fluid/dynamic~static/down), dead in the water, the dead spit of, only dead fish go with the flow, a watery grave, the kiss of death, dead air, stop the bleeding, stay afloat, lazy river, god rest his soul, slow you blow, die for want of lobster sauce, (14): flowers, decorative floral patterns, the kenning "dead-slave" meaning blood, water burials, feeding wine to the dead in Rome, the Sea of Tranquillity, the Dead Sea, Deadpool, "Go slow, my soul, to feed thyself," "Water makes many Beds,""Though the great Waters sleep" and "How slow the Wind" by Emily Dickinson, "Spirits of the Dead" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Aye, and more than that, endless duty of the frontier guard, for as the Turks say, ‘water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.’

—Bram Stoker, Dracula (2023)

No one knew, no one could imagine; no one—not even the burgomaster Mynheer Superbus Von Underduk—had the slightest clew by which to unravel the mystery; so, as nothing more reasonable could be done, every one to a man replaced his pipe carefully in the corner of his mouth, and cocking up his right eye towards the phenomenon, puffed, paused, waddled about, and grunted significantly—then waddled back, grunted, paused, and finally—puffed again.

—Edgar Allan Poe, The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (2024)

Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

—The Bible, Job 38:11 (Bartlett 2022)

I stood beside a lake that appeared to be completely still. A storm came up abruptly and high waves arose, so that my whole face was splashed.

—Dream of a girl with ereuthophobia, see Campbell (2008)

Fluid~order (4): clear the air, rinse and repeat, lick into shape, right as rain, (2): a straight flush, The band Creedence Clearwater Revival.

The spirits of just men made perfect.

—The Bible, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews 12:23

Fluid~dark (8): burning the midnight oil (hot/fluid~dark), blue wave, blue blood, turn the air blue, dark cloud on the horizon, nothing but blue skies ahead, blue sky thinking, out of the clear blue sky (cool color/order~out), (14): the Zen ensō circle, calligraphy, "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Rain" by Prince, "Lavender Haze" by Taylor Swift, The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle, the Irish fairy tale "The Black Cloud," The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang, "Upon a Lilac Sea" by Emily Dickinson, "Dark Night of the Soul" by John of the Cross, "Blue Stream" by Hwong Jini, the Smoke Monster in the series Lost, the yokai Enenra who is made of smoke and darkness, the wine dark sea (epithet in Homer).

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

—Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"

Fluid~quiet/low pitch (2): blood and thunder, piss and moan, (2): Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, "She went as quiet as the Dew" by Emily Dickinson.

Fluid~down (18): water under the bridge, teardrop, blow me down, trickle down, watered down, what it boils down to, under your breath, breathing down my neck, meltdown, plant a flag, drain the swamp, under the weather, undercurrent, downstream, sink or swim, under a cloud of suspicion, under the influence, (9): libations, the tears of Ra, the shower of gold with which Zeus impregnates Danae, waterfalls, crying, Watership Down by Richard Adams, "I think that the Root of the Wind is Water" by Emily Dickinson, the Scottish fairy tale "The Daughter Of King Under-Waves," The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë.

Fluid~in (57): it comes in waves, into thin air, catch my drift, catch wind of, wind bag, sucking wind, get smoked, gathering clouds, a genie in a bottle, land you in hot water, any port in a storm, it's in my blood, blood and treasure, bleeding heart liberal, make a hole in the water, sapsucker, bloodthirsty, bloodsucker, honey trap, buttercup, blood and guts, spill your guts, wine and dine, save your breath, save your soul, a pot to piss in, save it for a rainy day, in the soup, my cup of tea, suck some brew, heart and soul, take a rain check, hunger is the best sauce, my cup runneth over (fluid-dynamic-up~in), mouth breather, in the next breath, inflow, in a stew, influential, get creamed, have a spat, holy water, holy spirit, holy ghost, holy smokes, blow the coals, the ghost in the machine, spellbound, inspire, come on in the water’s fine, come home by Weeping Cross, blood is worth bottling (Australian), frothing at the mouth, blow my cover, put that in your pipe and smoke it, take a licking, home and hosed, got milk? (humorous), (13): the Grimm's fairy tale "The Spirit in the Bottle," drinking the blood of Christ, the lotus-eaters, the bag of winds given to Odysseus, house-haunting ghosts, blood oaths, "Have you got a Brook in your little heart," "How the Waters closed above Him," "The Sea said 'Come' to the Brook," "There came a Wind like a Bugle" and "I saw the wind within her" by Emily Dickinson, kissing, sex.

Fluid~round (20): honeymoon, just spitballing, here's mud in your eye, here's spit in your eye, a full head of steam, head in the clouds, airhead, fountainhead, dip your toe in the water, grease the wheels, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, a spot of tea, cry on your shoulder, the rain beats the leopard's skin but it does not wash out the spots (African proverb), when life gives you lemons, make lemonade, eye of the wind, air ball, slimeball, scuzball, (5): the wind-wheel of Nezha, the Zen ensō circle, the Greek River Okeanos, bubble baths, "The Moon upon her fluent Route" by Emily Dickinson.

Fluid~few (2): breathless, a drop in the bucket, (5): "How lonesome the Wind must feel Nights," "Least Rivers - docile to some sea," "I taste a liquor never brewed" and "The duties of the Wind are few" by Emily Dickinson, The Anointed One.

Fluid~small (4): don't sweat the small stuff, in small doses, a drop in the ocean, sparrows tears (Japanese), (4): "A little overflowing word," "Adrift! A little boat adrift!," "The pungent atom in the Air" and "It's such a little thing to weep" by Emily Dickinson.

Fluid~back (2): wet behind the ears, backwater.

Fluid~old (1): you cannot put new wine in old bottles, (1): Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

Dynamism and Speed

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

—Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (Bartlett 2022)

Dynamic~cold (5): play it cool, the trail ran cold, pure as the driven snow, cold brew, cool your jets, (2): Frosty the Snowman, the band name Coldplay.

Now welcome, somer, with thy sonne softe, That hast this wintres wedres overshake.

— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Fowls (2022)

Dynamic~solid (42): move mountains, drive a hard bargain, turn on a dime, drive me nuts, shaky ground, hit the ground running, throw me a bone, bone shaking, start shit, turn to shit, pack your shit and go, go to the ends of the earth, live off the land, party hard, play hard ball, play hard to get, go hard, go hard or go home, a hard knock life, throw a wrench into the works, off to a rocky start, letting go is hard, a hard and fast rule, landslide, meat wave, leave no stone unturned, shit rolls downhill, a rolling stone gathers no moss, it sent a shiver down my spine, if the tables were turned, hit the ground running, dry run, carry coals to Newcastle, hard carry, in the land of the living, playground, cast the first stone, stir up shit, curb-crawler, shiver me timbers, it's not the meat it's the motion, brass monkeys (British), (48): Golems, Baetylus (stones endowed with life), the flying mortar and pestle of Baba Yaga, the Japanese bone whale Bake-kujira, Mount Rushmore, the tree of life in the midst of the Garden of Eden, the tree of life Égig érő fa, the tree of life Életfa, the self-playing chessboard of Gwenddoleu ap Ceidio, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, "Like a Rolling Stone" (Bob Dylan song), the band name Stone Temple Pilots, The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein, Sword of Freyr (which fights by itself), witch's brooms, Pinocchio, Marionettes, the living earth Xirang in Chinese myth, rocks and trees dancing to the lyre of Orpheus, action figures, Transformers, pinball, bowling, baseball, cricket, billiards, air hockey, wind-up toys, Slinkys, Matchbox cars, The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison, Bone Dance by Emma Bull, Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, a "Alter! When the Hills do," "It sounded as if the Streets were running" and "An altered look about the hills" by Emily Dickinson, "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams.

Dynamic~static (39): kill switch, get a move on, the quick and the dead, ride or die, going steady, fast asleep, go to sleep, suspended animation, jet lag, hurry up and wait, it's a waiting game, the calm before the storm, unmoved mover, death march, dead man walking, wake the dead, spinning in the grave, playing dead, dancing on someone's grave, go in for the kill, death spiral, slow your roll, still life, a matter of life and death, live free or die, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting something, the king is dead long live the king, ready steady go, slow and steady wins the race, steady as she goes, going nowhere fast, asleep at the wheel, change is the only constant, steadfast, bedswerver, live by the sword die by the sword, live dog is better than a dead lion, wake up and die right, festina lente (make haste slowly), (26): zombies, vampires, ghosts, cephalophores, draugr, haugbui, aptrgangr, dancing with the dead, the Flying Dutchman, Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, Hindu vetala that inhabit the reanimated dead, The Walking Dead series, the cauldron Pair Dadeni that revives the dead, dance, yoga, mimes, stop motion animation, Live and Let Die (Bond Film), The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells, "A Death blow is a Life blow to Some," "The Stimulus, beyond the Grave," "She died at play," "We do not play on Graves" and "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson, still life paintings, "Static-Dynamic Gradation" by Paul Klee, the dying and rising god motif (Inanna/Ishtar, Baal, Dumuzi, Osiris, Dionysus, Odin, Jesus), shapeshifting.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

—Homer, Odyssey, VIII, l. 329

I had to climb a mountain. There were all kinds of obstacles in the way. I had now to jump over a ditch, now to get over a hedge, and finally to stand still because I had lost my breath.

—Dream of “a stutterer,” see Campbell (2008)

Dynamic~order (16): play it straight, play it square, go in peace, go back to square one, steer clear, smooth move, keep calm and carry on, marching orders, level playing field, right quick, game plan, go figure, transfigure, go pear shaped, a fair shake, a balancing act, (3): Rubik's Cube, The Shapeshifter by Ali Sparkes, The Shape-Changer's Wife by Sharon Shinn.

Dynamic~dark (8): jet black, blue streak, stroke of midnight, tossing and turning all night, cruisin' for a bruisin, that got dark fast, flying blind, nightcrawler, (7): Voyager in Night by C. J. Cherryh, The Nightrunner by Lynn Flewelling, Shadowplay and Shadowmarch by Tad Williams, "Like Men and Women Shadows walk" and "The last Night that She lived" by Emily Dickinson, the Irish fairy tale "The Midnight Ride."

Dynamic~round (25): turn a blind eye, head-spinning, heads will roll, run head on, a head start, run head first, get the runaround, running around in circles, run circles around, the circle of life, makes the world go round, a rolling stone gathers no moss, a leopard cannot change its spots, a turning point, get the ball rolling, every time I turn around, jerking around, that's the way the ball bounces, speedhead, play ball, it's a coin toss, go off your dot, turn on a dime, a roving eye, swings and roundabouts (UK), (12): the name of Odin "Shifty Eyed," yo-yo's, juggling, hula hoops, spinning tops, carousels, Ferris wheels, roulette, Magic 8-Balls, bobbleheads, the Irish fairy tale "Shaking-Head," "Runaround" by Isaac Asimov.

Dynamic~short (1): Contained in this short Life" by Emily Dickinson.

Dynamic~down (23): the rundown, a shakedown, sinking fast, swing low, running low, how low can you go, turned down, downplay, play it down, going down, going under, never live it down, lowlife, a race to the bottom, winding down, mosey on down, one fell swoop, sweep it under the rug, shake a leg, thrown under the bus, wipe the floor with, bottom dweller, undergo, in free fall, (18): skydiving, high diving, sledding, downhill skiing, bungee jumping, drop towers, slam dunks, spiking volleyballs, spiking footballs, Tetris, snow angels, stadium sports, foot tapping, tap dancing, breakdancing, dancing in animals generally, "I sometimes drop it, for a Quick," "The Love a Life can show Below" by Emily Dickinson.

Dynamic~in (61): fools rush in, swoop in, motormouth, run your mouth, eat and run, feeding frenzy, take it in stride, going all in, in play, play right into, play it by ear, hyper-focused, push the envelope, turn in, in turn, in a spin, go with your gut, what goes around comes around, a go-getter, get the go ahead, rock the boat, butterflies in the stomach, pull a fast one, catch on fast, eaten alive, hold on for dear life, a lifesaver, in another life, come to life, come alive, hold sway, eating out of my hand, in a tizzy, let's get started, from the get-go, in the driver's seat, drive home the point, in the running, throw in the towel, ransacked, action-packed, come into play, just waltz in here, fast food, don't rush into anything, come thick and fast, run for cover, in the long run, bring to life, bring into play, interact, involve, go hand in hand, in two shakes, get-rich-quick, grab and go, take your turn, take a turn, in a brace of shakes, throw a tub to the whale, poetry in motion, hold with the hare and run with the hounds, (12): handshakes, flying chariots, the chicken-legged hut of Baba Yaga, snow globes, kaleidoscopes, fencing, pat-a-cake, couple dancing, sex, the Grimm's fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood," The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, "Who goes to dine must take his Feast" by Emily Dickinson, the Scandinavian fairy tale "The Flying Trunk."

Dynamic~small (2): live a little, it's the little things in life.

Dynamic~few (8): we got a live one here (humorous), at one go, you only live once, for once in your life, running on empty, one horse race, less haste more speed, boldly go where no man has gone before, (3): Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, "How fleet - how indiscreet an one" and "I cautious, scanned my little life" by Emily Dickinson.

No one travels
Along this way but I,
This autumn evening.

— Matsuo Bashō

Dynamic~good (2): good to go, when the going is good, when the going gets tough the good get going, (1): "Good Vibrations" (The Beach Boys song).

Dynamic~back (2): fastback (car style).

Disorder

Disorder~cold (7): break the ice, cold war, fighting a cold, frozen conflict, crack open a cold one, a bad cold, stone cold crazy (disorder~cold/solid), (1): Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

Disorder~solid (26): break new ground, break ground, groundbreaking, earth-shattering, a hard nut to crack, bust a nut, shell shock, fight tooth and nail, bad iron, meat grinder, breaking up is hard to do, a bone of contention, when the shit hits the fan, crazy shit, fender bender, that's the way the cookie crumbles, bone-crunching, I'll break every bone in your body, just busting your chops, a turf war, a bombshell, as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined, constant dropping wears away a stone, asphalt jungle, (12): kintsugi, the kenning "breaker of trees" meaning the wind, Piñatas, dish breaking in Germany, instrument destruction in concerts, christening with wine bottles, spoon bending, breaking piggy banks, breaking bread, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls by Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Tale of the Ragged Mountains by Edgar Allan Poe, bone chewing in dogs.

A stone had broken my windshield. I was now open to the storm and rain. Tears came to my eyes. Could I ever reach my destination in this car?

—Dream of a woman who lost her virginity, Campbell (2008).

The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.

— Michelangelo, Sonnet (Bartlett 2022)

Disorder~static (13): death spiral, a disaster waiting to happen, no rest for the wicked, get up on the wrong side of the bed, strange bedfellows, couldn't lie straight in bed (humorous), sleeping rough, dead broke, die of a broken heart, the calm before the storm, after a storm comes a calm, break the deadlock, (1): dying for sins.

Disorder~order (22): mix and match, bad form, rough around the edges, a diamond in the rough (disorder~solid/order), break even, break the rules, rules were made to be broken, a fair crack, blockbuster, method to the madness, flat broke, deterministic chaos, damage control, perfect strangers, clean break, a chip off the old block, just plain wrong, clearly confused, clear as mud, a rough diamond, civil war, (10): music, dance, games, sports, jigsaw puzzles, Conway's Game of Life, kaleidoscopes, Rubik's Cubes, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Patterns of Chaos by Colin Kapp.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

— Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream”

Disorder~dark (3): wild blue yonder, black don't crack, night terrors, (11): the archetypal story opening "it was a dark and stormy night," Halloween, "A wild Blue sky abreast of Winds," "Where Ships of Purple - gently toss," "A slash of Blue" and "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!" by Emily Dickinson, "Fragmentary Blue" by Robert Frost, Jacob wrestling with a man (or angel) all night in Genesis, telling scary stories at night, the orderly or chaotic nighttime yōkai parade Hyakki Yagyō, the “black cooked one” Crom Dubh in Irish myth.

Wild nights - Wild nights! [disorder~dark, disorder~dark]
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be [disorder~dark]
Our luxury!
Futile - the winds -
To a Heart in port -
Done with the Compass -
Done with the Chart!
Rowing in Eden -
Ah - the Sea!
Might I but moor - tonight -
In thee!

—Emily Dickinson, "Wild nights - Wild nights!"

I came into a place void of all light, which bellows like the sea in tempest, when it is combated by warring winds.

— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (Bartlett 2022)

Disorder~low pitch/quiet (3): break the silence, drums of war, miss a beat.

Disorder~down (18): crackdown, have a breakdown, break it down, break down and cry, deep trouble, let the chips fall where they may, break the fall, downward spiral, drop kick, drop a bombshell, down and dirty, down in the dumps, scraping the bottom of the barrel, lay waste to, come crashing down, the fish rots from the head down, crack under pressure, the root of all evil, (29): dancing, breakdancing, the moonwalk, wrestling, falling down as a joke, tackling in American football, stadium sports, by Emily Dickinson YoYos, skateboard tricks, olympic diving, 52 card pickup, Tetris, Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake, mud wrestling, belly flops, head-banging, monster trucks running over cars, curtsey, Twister, jumping in puddles, white water rafting, coin tossing, dice rolling, confetti, scattering flower petals at weddings, Humpty Dumpty's great fall, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, "How many times these low feet staggered" by Emily Dickinson, "The Valley of Unrest" and A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe.

Disorder~in (35): a mixed bag, get wasted, get wrecked, get crazy, coming around the bend, rotten to the core, cracker-barrel, crazy drawer, luny bin, foul mouth, dirty mouth, dirtbag, belly flop, bust a gut, take a tumble, burst in, take a spill, in the mix, in the wild, split a gut, bunker buster, getting sloppy, junk in the trunk, break in (interrupt), sowing chaos, trick or treat, junkfood, gatecrasher, feeding frenzy, mad as a hatter, take a walk on the wild side, break my brain, in fighting, a holy terror, mistake, (11): mazes, kaleidoscopes, kintsugi, witch's cauldrons, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, couple dance, sex, "A poor - torn heart - a tattered heart -" by Emily Dickinson, Random House (Publishing), Namahage.

For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

—The Bible, Genesis 8:21

Disorder~round (27): burst your bubble, eye-popping, keep your eyes peeled, green-eyed monster, flipped it on its head, knock the cover off the ball, a spot of bother, a spot of trouble, the breaking point, leave no stone unturned, cherry bomb, a bad apple, upset the apple cart, mess around, that's the way the cookie crumbles, throw you a curveball, screwball, kick the tires, quit busting my balls, don't get your balls in a twist, bash around, rough around the edges, around the bend, you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, the wheels fell off, break a butterfly upon a wheel, a broken record, a moonflaw, vicious circle (10): The kenning "breaker of rings" meaning a king, the name of Odin "Wavering Eye," the randomly spinning Rota Fortunae, Wheel of Fortune, the Gorgoneion, pinball, Picasso paintings, plasma balls, Sumo wrestling, the apple of discord.

Disorder~small (1): a little rough around the edges, (1): A little Madness in the Spring by Emily Dickinson.

Disorder~few (8): a wild one, one bad apple spoils the bunch, nothing but trouble, not half bad, half the battle, at first go, trouble shared is trouble halved, one hell of a mess, half crazy, unibomber, (1): Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Disorder~back (2): the straw that breaks the camel's back, back breaking work.

Disorder~end (2): the war to end all wars, loose ends.

Disorder~good (2): damaged goods, a ragged colt may make a good horse.

Form

Hot~form (10): It makes my blood boil, making me hot under the collar, make it hot for, make sparks fly, one swallow does not make a summer, soft fire makes sweet malt, it's a hell of a thing, just for the hell of it, is it hot enough for you, damn it to blue blazes, it burns me up, (1): "A something in a summer's Day (1890) by Emily Dickinson."

Fluid~form (22): make waves, make a splash, make it rain, makes my blood boil, when life gives you lemons make lemonade, make my mouth water, can't make a lick of sense out of, makes my head swim, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink, in the swim of things, make things gel, wash a few things out, building up a head of steam, lick into shape, it's a wash, that blows, it blows, blow it off, call it a wash, don't sweat it, when it rains it pours, it's a crying shame, there's something in the air, (2): Swamp Thing, the Irish fairy tale "How the Lakes were Made."

Dynamic~form (31): make haste, make a move on, every move you make, make a living, makes my head spin, make a dash, make a fast buck, make a go of it, make a run for it, make all the running, make a play for, make strides, make dry bones live, make quick work of, make it snappy, makeshift, run a make on, makes the world go round, make a fresh start, the finer things in life, got a good thing going, got one thing going for you, the best things in life are free, in the swing of things, see how things play out, whip into shape, go figure, got it going on, it's time to go, as it turns out, as if it's going out of style, go it alone, (1): "Between the form of Life and Life" by Emily Dickinson.

Disorder~form (22): make or break, make a break for it, make it or break it, make a clean break, make a crack, make a mess, make strange with, make love not war, make mincemeat of, make a change, you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs, great haste makes great waste, stranger things have happened, a mind is a terrible thing to waste, take a crack at it, not all it's cracked up to be, if you break it you bought it, it's just crazy enough to work, crushing it, crack it, cracking it, break it down, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Bright~form (8): make hay while the sun shines, make my day, make a day of it, first thing in the morning, Rome wasn't built in a day, call it a day, see it in a new light (3): Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon, "Glory is that bright tragic thing" and "Make me a picture of the sun" by Emily Dickinson.

Up~form (36): makeup, make it up to you, you can't make this stuff up, make up your mind, my mind is made up, get a makeover, make an uproar, make up ground, make up for lost time, make the dust fly, make the fur fly, a match made in heaven, step things up, take things up a notch, spice things up, add up to the same thing, thing are looking up, building up to, building castles in the air, built from the ground up, tip-top shape, you better shape up, shaping up to be, figure up, fuck it up, screw it up, it's all uphill from here, it's an uphill battle, chalk it up to, cough it up, do it up brown, had it up to here, ham it up, hand it over, jack it up, living it up, (1): "Some things that fly there be" by Emily Dickinson.

Out~form (39): make out, making out, make out like a bandit, make a pitch, make way, make an all-out effort, make away with, make like a tree and leave, make an exit, the way things turned out, see how things play out, overdo things, out of shape, all bent out of shape, throw some shapes, figure it out, work it out, as it turns out, get away from it all, I'm over it, it's all over, as far as that goes, that's as far as it goes, as it turns out, as if it's going out of style, out of it, put it off, blow it off, box it out, it'll be over soon, in it for the long haul, cut it out, doggone it, spell it out, duke it out, far from it, I'm going to lose it, have it out, explain it away.

Loudness/high-pitch~form (11): make an uproar, make a fuss, make a laughingstock of, make a bee-line for, an empty vessel makes the most noise, bang it out, it doesn't ring a bell, yell it from the rooftops, all that jazz, get a bang out of it, whoop it up.

Long~form (5): make a long story short, make a long arm for, the finer things in life, things are getting hairy.

Many~form (23): two wrongs don't make a right, it takes two to tangle, make it a double, make a fortune, all things to all people, teach you a thing or two, all the thing, all good things, any number of things, bad things come in threes, he who begins many things finishes but few, too much of a good thing, of all things, a million and one things to do, add up to the same thing, all things considered, this that or the other thing, all shapes and sizes, any way shape or form, it's all good, it's too much, it's all I need, that says it all.

Brightness and Warm Colors

Bright~cold (1): a cold day in hell, (4): Snow White, snowmen, Christmas lights, Gloger's rule.

Bright~solid (5): a shiny object, a red cent, a hard day, pearly whites, star studded, (22): gold, alchemy (chrysopoeia), trophies, medals, pearls, jewels, jewelry, gold teeth, colored fingernails, A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles album), the kenning "heaven's jewel" meaning the sun, The Golden Bough, Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross, The Sunrise Lands by S. M. Stirling, A Hard Day's Night (Beatles album), "Frequently the woods are pink, "This - is the land - the Sunset washes" and "The Road was lit with Moon and star" by Emily Dickinson, "A Star In A Stone Boat" by Robert Frost, the Scottish fairy tale "Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree," Flashman and the Mountain of Light by George MacDonald Fraser, Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima.

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

—The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Bartlett 2022)

Then higher on the glistering Sun I gaz'd
 Whose beams was shaded by the leavie Tree,
 The more I look'd, the more I grew amaz'd
 And softly said, what glory's like to thee?
 Soul of this world, this Universes Eye,
 No wonder, some made thee a Deity:
 Had I not better known, (alas) the same had I

—Anne Bradstreet, "Upon a Fit of Sickness, Anno. 1632."

How the old Mountains drip with Sunset
How the Hemlocks burn—
How the Dun Brake is draped in Cinder
By the Wizard Sun—

—Emily Dickinson, excerpt from “How the old Mountains drip with Sunset”

Bright~static (3): carpe diem, better dead than red, kill the goose that lays the golden egg, (12): Day of the Dead, the Death Star, “Waiting for the Sun” (The Doors album), Die Another Day (Bond film), Slow Lightning by Jack McDevitt, "A Toad, can die of Light," "The Day came slow - till Five o'clock," "The Sunset stopped on Cottages," "This slow Day moved along" and "Midsummer, was it, when They died" by Emily Dickinson, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini, "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art" by John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death.

Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

— The Bible, Joshua 10:12

And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday.

— The Bible, The Book of Job 11:17 (Bartlett 2022)

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis [Eternal rest give them, O Lord: and let perpetual light shine upon them]. Mass for the Dead

— The Roman Missal, Mass for the Dead (Bartlett 2022)

Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
Them good old boys were drinkin’ Whiskey and Rye
Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die This’ll be the day that I die

—Don McLean, “American Pie” (Bartlett 2022)

Bright~order (1): right and rosy, (5): This Perfect Day by Ira Levin, "The pattern of the sun" and "We shall find the Cube of the Rainbow" by Emily Dickinson, "How Clear She Shines" by Emily Brontë, the Golden Rule.

Bright~dark (8): a blue streak, it's like night and day, day or night, dark days, morning noon and night, once in a blue moon, a dim bulb, as clear as black and white, a black day, (47): the Yin Yang symbol, soccer balls, dominoes, checker boards, piano keys, dice, glow in the dark objects, motley jester attire, mood lighting, makeup, flags, playing cards, Wonder Woman, Spiderman, Superman, Green Lantern, Smurfs, Mickey Mouse, nun's habits, priest costumes, Christmas colors, Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Moonlit Night by Salvador Dali, the band name Green Day, the Grimm's fairy tale "The Blue Light," As the Green Star Rises by Lin Carter, Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny, The Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett, Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson, Night of Light by Philip Jose Farmer, Night Lamp by Jack Vance, The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt, Red Moon and Black Mountain by Joy Chant, "As plan for Noon and plan for Night," "Good Morning - Midnight," "Sunset at Night - is natural," "To Whom the Mornings stand for Nights," "The first Day's Night had come," "'Tis my first night beneath the Sun" and "A Night - there lay the Days between" by Emily Dickinson, the German fairy tale "The White and the Black Bride," "Evening Star" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Black Cradle of Bright Life" by Vangel Naumovski, the yokai Aosaginohi which glows blue at night and breathes golden glowing dust, red and blue masks in Namahage, rainbow coloration in animals, the contrast effect, alternatingly bright and dark stripes, ornamental ocelli in animal coloration generally.

Anaxagoras, it will be remembered, maintained that snow is black, and this I have since found to be the case.

—Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath (2024)

Our days on the earth are as a shadow.

— The Bible, The First Book of the Chronicles 29:15 (Bartlett 2022)

He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

— The Bible, The Book of Job 12:22 (Bartlett 2022)

Where knowledge and desire end, there is darkness, and there God shines.

— Meister Eckhart, Sermon 181 (Bartlett 2022)

Lead me from the unreal to the real! Lead me from darkness to light! Lead me from death to immortality!

—Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 1.3.28 (Bartlett 2022)

I see a red door and I want it painted black No colors anymore, I want them to turn black I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes I have to turn my head until my darkness goes.

—“Paint It Black,” The Rolling Stones (Bartlett 2022)

Bright~down (3): sundowner, go to bed with the sun, under false colors; (7): red carpets, the Yellow Brick Road, "Yellow Submarine" (The Beatles), buried treasure, "The Sun kept setting - setting - still," "Under the Light, yet under," "Whole Gulfs - of Red, and Fleets - of Red" and "The Sun kept stooping - stooping - low!" by Emily Dickinson.

Bright~in (24): take a shine to, lightning in a bottle, in living color, have a nice day, a day in the sun, having a day, have our day, yellow-bellied, bleeding heart, light up the room, catch some rays, caught red handed, in broad daylight, as sure as the sun comes up, come rain or shine, come to light, save the day, a guided cage, taco Tuesday, in the coming days, enlightenment, in the spotlight, color inside the lines, in a bad light, hold a candle to, (18): the light theft motif, the kenning "sun of the houses" meaning fire, Jack-o'-lanterns, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, golden chariots, wrapped presents, Star Gate by Andre Norton, The Great God Pan & The Inmost Light by Arthur Machen, Here Comes the Sun by Tom Holt, The Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, "Glowing is her Bonnet," "Dear March - Come in," "There came a Day at Summer's full" and "Bring me the sunset in a cup" by Emily Dickinson, “Here Comes the Sun” by the Beatles, painting doorposts and lintels with blood at passover, the coat of many colors.

They stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colors.

—The Bible, Genesis 37:23

Bright~small (1): a little white lie, (6): The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge, "The Day grew small, surrounded tight" by Emily Dickinson, the Irish fairy tale "Little Red Bird," "Little Red Riding Hood," the Scottish fairy tale "Little Daylight," Little Sunbeam by Eleanora H. Stooke

Bright~round (18): the twinkle of an eye, a sparkle in your eye, in the flash of an eye, starry-eyed, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, take the red eye, wait until you see the whites of their eyes, have the sun in your eyes (to be drunk), a bright spot, bright as a button, a flashpoint, a thousand points of light, lightning round, moonbeam, moonshine, a red cent, headlight, hump day, (24): the Eye of Providence, Þjazi's eyes, disco balls, halos, crowns, crystal balls, GoldenEye (Bond film), The name of Odin "Flashing Eye," the circle of stars, Christmas tree ornaments, Easter eggs, happy faces, Pac-Man, Santa Claus, Rudolph's nose, balloons, the golden apples of the Hesperides, the Greek fairy tale "The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs," the English fairy tale "The Golden Ball," "The Golden Ball" by Agatha Christie, the Scandinavian fairy tale "Maiden Bright-eye," the Slavic fairy tale "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples," the flag of Bangladesh," "Ring Around the Sun" by Isaac Asimov.

Bright~quiet/silence (1): silence is golden, (1): "It was a quiet seeming Day" by Emily Dickinson.

Bright~few (6): lackluster, one of these days, one day, from day one, colorless, 0-day, (3): "It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon," "Too few the mornings be" and "One Day is there of the Series" by Emily Dickinson.

Rome was not built in one day.

— John Heywood (Bartlett 2022)

Bright~old (3): days of old, the good old days, in the old days, (1): Old Yeller.

Bright~good (4): good as gold, good day, have a good day, the good old days.

Other (2): back in the day (bright~back), close of day (bright~close).

Sound, Loudness and High Pitch

High pitch~cold (1): cold snap, (1) "The fascinating chill that music leaves" by Emily Dickinson.

High pitch/sound~solid (2): barking up the wrong tree, musical chairs, all steak and no sizzle, (8): the Singing Sword of Conaire Mór, the prow of the Argo, talking trees, Triton' conch shell, David's self-playing harp, Binnorie's singing harp, the German fairy tale "The Singing Bone," the bird name Stonechat, the “night-crying stone” Yonaki ishi.

If these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

—The Bible, The Gospel According to Saint Luke 19:40 (Bartlett 2022)

High pitch/sound~static (12): stop the music, buzzkill, whistling past the graveyard, whistle stop tour, die laughing, laugh myself to death, croak, music soothes the savage beast, loud enough to wake the dead, death rattle, the tune the old cow died of, screech to a halt, (8): "Dying at my music!" "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died," "I sing to use the Waiting," "How still the Bells in Steeples stand," "When Bells stop ringing - Church - begins," "Where bells no more affright the morn" and "The murmuring of Bees, has ceased" by Emily Dickinson, Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings by Tom Shippey.

I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - [high pitch~static]
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air - [fluid~static]
Between the Heaves of Storm -
The Eyes around - had wrung them dry -
And Breaths were gathering firm [fluid~solid]
For that last Onset - when the King
Be witnessed - in the Room -
I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away
What portion of me be
Assignable - and then it was
There interposed a Fly -
With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz- [disorder/high pitch~blue]
Between the light - and me -
And then the Windows failed - and then
I could not see to see -

—Emily Dickinson, "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died"

High pitch/sound~order (6): loud and clear, clean as a whistle, clear as a bell, squeaky clean, man plans and God laughs, perfect pitch, (2): The church service Evensong, The Song Remains the Same (Led Zeppelin album).

High pitch~dark (4): whistling in the dark, cry-baby the blues, sing the blues, effing and blinding (British), (3): "Bees are Black, with Gilt Surcingles" by Emily Dickinson, "The Voice in the Dark" by Agatha Christie, the Orson Welles film "Chimes at Midnight."

Sound~silence (3): say the quiet part out loud, with a bang or a whimper, you could hear a pin drop, (3): Simon & Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence," music, language.

High pitch~low pitch (7): bang the drum, ding dong, King Kong, ping pong, sing song, heebie-jeebies, tickety boo (British).

High pitch/sound~in (10): a loud mouth, music to my ears, catch some z's, sound bite, catch a buzz, a barrel of laughs, chatterbox, belly laugh, elevator music, hearsay, (3): The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey, The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by American writer Harlan Ellison, "The Bird her punctual music brings" by Emily Dickinson.

Sound/high pitch~round (5): music of the spheres, cry-baby, cry for the moon, hip hip hooray, a round of applause, (3): clown noses, baby rattles, the Slavic fairy tale "Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye."

Sound~few (3): an empty vessel makes the most noise, nothing to sneeze at, the sound of one hand clapping, (1): "A Never Naught Song" by Robert Frost.

High pitch~small (1): lie low and sing small, the world's smallest violin.

Upwardness

Up~cold (2): freeze up, ice over.

Up~solid (20): the high ground, the high road, heaven on earth, mind over matter, a stiff upper lip, upper crust, hard up, high and dry, bone up, jump your bones, chalk it up to, raise the bar, make shit up, up shit creek, brass ceiling, glass ceiling, fly in the teeth of, in an ivory tower, castles in the air, pennies from heaven, (16): the Biblical firmament, pyramids, gravestones, ziggurats, monoliths, Stonehenge, obelisks, the kenning "Ymer's skull" for the sky, gravestones, the band name Led Zeppelin, Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov, Stone and Sky by Graham Edwards, Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper, Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg, the Irish fairy tale "The Highest Penny," "A Cap of Lead across the sky" by Emily Dickinson, high hearted (epithet in Homer).

A Cap of Lead across the sky
Was tight and surly drawn
We could not find the mighty Face
The Figure was withdrawn -
A Chill came up as from a shaft
Our noon became a well
A Thunder storm combines the charms
Of Winter and of Hell.

— Emily Dickinson, "A Cap of Lead across the sky"

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His han

—Popular Irish blessing

Up~static (17): overkill, over my dead body, waiting in the wings, slow on the uptake, stay up, hold up, wait up, wouldn't lose sleep over, sleep over, raising the dead, dead cat bounce, rest up, a hill to die on, creep up, overstay your welcome, died and gone to heaven, (3): "It was not Death, for I stood up" and "Love can do all but raise the Dead" by Emily Dickinson, "On a Bird Winging in its Sleep" by Robert Frost.

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

— The Bible, The Book of Job 4:10 (Bartlett 2002)

Up~order (16): a tall order, clear it up, upright, above the law, fly straight, aim high, measure up, straight as the crow flies, overrule, straight up, straighten up, shape up, clean up, a match made in heaven, high level, rocket science, (5): Egyptian pyramids, Mesoamerican pyramids, Odin's name "Evenhigh," "I think just how my shape will rise" by Emily Dickinson, the t-shaped pillars of Göbekli Tepe.

Up~dark (8): tall dark and handsome, fly by night, flying blind, overshadow, up all night, blue-sky thinking, keeps me up at night, do it up brown, (2): Nightwings by Robert Silverberg, The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper.

Up~round (14): eye in the sky, throw an eye over, head on over, over your head, heads up, heads and shoulders above, keep your head up, keep your chin up, raise the point, pie in the sky, jumping through hoops, wheels up, ball up, button up (18): domes, arches, celestial spheres, Atlas holding up the Earth, flying saucers, the Egyptian hieroglyphic Ankh symbol, balloons, baseball, basketball, coin flipping, bubbles, snowmen, neck elongation, wheelies, handheld fans, decorative peacocks, bindis, Spaceballs.

Up~down (24): jumping up and down, look someone up and down, searched high and low, as above so below, bottoms up, it's a rollercoaster, upside down, hangover, hung up on, have a hang up, top down, the over under, are you picking up what I'm laying down, overlay, crestfallen, layover, layup, laid up, fall over, eavesdropping, move heaven and earth, high floor low ceiling, fly under the radar, cork high and bottle deep, (49): dances, Icarus, Phaethon, Yo-yo's, rollercoasters, jumping on beds, trampolines, swinging, baby bouncers, teeter totters, roller coasters, dribbling in basketball, Skyfall (Bond film), "A Pit - but Heaven over it," "Cocoon above! Cocoon below," "Not any higher stands the Grave," "So much of Heaven has gone from Earth," "The Fact that Earth is Heaven," "The Pile of Years is not so high," "The Sky is low - the Clouds are mean," "Who has not found the Heaven - below" and "I rose - because He sank" by Emily Dickinson, Wikipedia lists three films, five albums, 20 songs and an arcade game named “Up and Down.”

Some people ask, “What if the sky were to fall?”

—Terence, Heauton Timoroumenos (Bartlett 2022)

He [Jacob] dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

—The Bible, Genesis 28:12

Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

—The Gospel According to Saint Luke 1:51 (Bartlett 2022)

As in the cold season their wings bear the starlings along in a broad, dense flock, so does that blast the wicked spirits. Hither, thither, downward, upward, it drives them.

— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (Bartlett 2022)

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (Bartlett 2022)

Up~in (48): overcome, get over it, right up your alley, coming right up, up and coming, coming up in the world, come up with, come up to, come up roses, in over your head, over a barrel, up your sleeve, up for grabs, jump right in, eat it up, keep it up, take it up, a takeover, keep up the good work, buckle up, suck it up, a suck-up, fed up, fed up to the back teeth, pull up, wrap it up, choked up, jump down your throat, kick it into the tall grass, hold up, holding up, holed up, get it up, catch up, caught up, top-notch, save up, top secret, all cooped up, knocking on heaven’s door, up the spout (British), and ace up your sleeve, bundle up, hold in high esteem, cover up, jumpsuit, (17): treehouses, Heaven's Gate (religious group), the flying canoe La Chasse-galerie, Santa's sleigh, Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan song), shooting baskets, upper goals in Mesoamerican ballgames, kicking a field goal, a hole in one, skee-ball, Trapped in Space by Jack Williamson, Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein, "Climbing to reach the costly Hearts" and "Except the Heaven had come so near " and "I've known a Heaven, like a Tent" by Emily Dickinson, the Slavic fairy tale "Flying Ship," the Flying Dutchman.

Up~quiet (3): hush up, shut up, a hush fell over.

Up~small (1): a little slice of heaven, (1): "Her little Parasol to lift" by Emily Dickinson.

Up~few (2): one up, an empty sack cannot stand upright, (3): Odin's name "High One," "Not One by Heaven defrauded stay" and "When One has given up One's life" by Emily Dickinson.

Up~good (2): good heavens, up to no good.

Outwardness

To go too far is as bad as not to go far enough.

— Confucius, Analects 11:15 (Bartlett 2022)

Out~cold (5): chill out, freeze out, ice out, left out in the cold, cool off, (1): throwing snow.

Out~solid (24): out of the woodwork, come out of your shell, shell it out, out of your skull, out of the woods, out of your tree, groundswell, get off the ground, rock out, get your rocks off, throw me a bone, hammer it out, the hard way, give a shit, shooting the shit, beat the shit out of, going to shit, shit out of luck, get the lead out, land and expand, a stone's throw, a distant land, brassed off (British), outlandish, (3): throwing horseshoes, skipping stones, The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris.

Out~static/slow (14): dead and gone, pulling out all the stops, shoot to kill, beyond the grave, dearly departed, die away, dead and gone, a dead giveaway, give it a rest, pass away, wait it out, creep me out, give pause, fuck off and die, (1) the Yom Kippur ritual of killing one goat and sending another into the wilderness.

Out~order (29): out of sorts, out of line, sort it out, off the grid, figure it out, flat out, rule out, peace out, a straight shooter, square shooter, square off, out of square, squared away, straight away, think outside the box, block it out, smooth it over, straighten it out, bent out of shape, out of shape, out of the blocks, cleaned out, clean out of, out of control, box it out, knock your block off, the best-laid plans of mice and men oft go astray, balance out, dispense with the formalities, (3): Gungnir the spear of Odin that always hits its target, target shooting, horseshoes.

Out~dark (9): throwing shade, beyond the shadow of a doubt, out of the blue, out of the shadows, out of the clear blue sky, a shot in the dark, blackout, dark cloud on the horizon, lay out in lavender, (2): tuxedos, "The distance that the dead have gone" by Emily Dickinson.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

—The Bible, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans 13:12 (Bartlett 2022)

Out~silent (1): Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis, (1): "Great Streets of silence led away" by Emily Dickinson.

Out~round (16): keep an eye out, crying my eyes out, as far as the eye can see, headed out, head off, round trip, a head trip, off with her head, knock the spots off, knock the spots out of, throw you a softball, balls-out, tripping balls, off your dot, point out, point of no return, (6): throwing snowballs, bowling, hitting baseballs, kicking soccer balls, pinball, "Before I got my eye put out" by Emily Dickinson.

Out~down (15): down and out, out of your depth, hang out, drop out, bow out, bottom out, downcast, beyond the grave, the fallout, layout, have a falling out, thrown under the bus, throw down, the bottom falls out, go off the deep end, hunt down, (4): billiards, golf, Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham, "Neither Out Far nor in Deep" by Robert Frost.

Out~in (54): day in and day out, know all the ins and outs of, out of the frying pan and into the fire, near and far, far fetched, in so far as, go suck an egg, out to lunch, pack a punch, get it off your chest, cast your mind, cast a wide net, out of bounds, out of touch, a simple in and out, on the outside looking in, give in, give and take, give with one hand and take away with the other, out of your mind, pan out, the takeaway, all tuckered out, in the offing, easy come easy go, we've come so far, throw yourself into, get out the vote, gotta give it to ya, bring out the best in someone, home free, you can dish it out but you can't take it, beyond the grave, off limits, get out of a pinch, get out of my face, send you packing, sucker punch, when push comes to shove, express, expression, a home away from home, you took the words right out of my mouth, get a word in edgewise, shoot your mouth off, lock em up and throw away the key, out of pocket, come off, come off it, come away empty handed, fly out of the traps, have an out, getting up to (British), (10): darts, baseball, field goals, Skee-Ball, tennis, boomerangs, Thor's Hammer Mjölnir, decorative projections associated with animal entrances, "Away from Home are some and I" "The Outer - from the Inner" and "The Opening and the Close" by Emily Dickinson, the Irish fairy tale "The Well at the World's End."

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

— Tertullian (Bartlett 2022)

For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

—The Bible, The First Book of Samuel 2:33 (Bartlett 2022)

And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

—The Bible, The Book of Job 1:7 (Bartlett 2022)

He is the First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward; He has knowledge of everything.

— The Koran 57:3 (Bartlett 2022)

Out~small (1): give a little, a little goes a long way.

Out~few (6): a one off, the one that got away, only get one shot at it, the odd one out, first out of the gate, few and far between, (1): Edgar Allan Poe’s The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall.

Out~good (2): good riddance, have a good trip, in good hands.

Specific Inwardness

Hearts (20): have a warm heart, heartwarming, warm heart cold hands, warm the cockles of your heart, pour your heart out, melt my heart, heart and soul, a bleeding heart, my heart bleeds for, my heart was racing, a change of heart, a broken heart, strike terror into the heart of, a heart of gold, have a big heart, cross my heart (long/spiky~inward), my heart goes out to, eat your heart out, wear your heart on your sleeve, with all my heart, (10): "My Heart ran so to thee," "Proud of my broken heart, since thou didst break it," "This heart that broke so long," "This dirty - little - Heart," "To break so vast a Heart," "Not with a Club, the Heart is broken," "Unto a broken heart," "Sang from the Heart, Sire," "The Popular Heart is a Cannon first" and "The mob within the heart" by Emily Dickinson.

And the day star arise in your hearts.

— The Bible, The Second Epistle General of Peter 1:19 (Bartlett 2022)

I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

— The Bible, Job 29:13 (Bartlett 2022)

Take (30): take heat, a hot take, take a leak, take a licking, a quick take, take if for a spin, take a hike, take the money and run, take a break, take a wild guess, take the world by storm, take a shine to, take up, take over, take a flyer, take a flying leap, take you out, the takeaway, take leave, take off, give and take, take it outside, take your best shot, take a stab at it, take him for everything he's got, take ten, a double take, it takes all kinds, take it out of context, it takes two to tango, (5): "I breathed enough to take the Trick," "I took one Draught of Life," "Take your Heaven further on," "Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy," and "Take all away" by Emily Dickinson.

Get (35): get burned, get all fired up, get pissed, get in the spirit, get up to speed, get up and go (up/dynamic~in), go get em, get moving, got it going on, got to run, got to get going, get a life, get out of this alive, get all bent out of shape, get mixed up in, get bent, get cracking, get busted, get screwed, get lit (bright~in), get over it, get it over with, get a leg up, getup (elaborate dress), get a rise out of, get all riled up (many/disorder/up~in), get off your high horse (out/up~in/horse), get all fucked up, as all get out, out to get me, get off, need to get out more, get lost, get carried away, get away with murder, make a getaway, don't get out much (out/many~negation), it got to be too much, (1): I've got an arrow here" (spiky~in) by Emily Dickinson.

Catch (19): catch heat, catch hell, catch air, catch wind of, catch my drift, catch a wave, catch your breath, honey catches more flies than vinegar, playing catch up, catch you on the flip side, catch a break, catch some rays, caught red-handed, catch lightening in a bottle, catch a tiger by its tail, the early bird catches the worm, playing catch up, get caught up in, a catch 22, catch 40 winks.

Hold (17): hold your feet to the fire, hold your fire, it doesn't hold water, don't hold your breath, hold your liquor, can't hold a candle to, hold fast, hold sway over, hold on for dear life, hold in high regard, how you holding up, what's the holdup, a holdup, a hold over, hold it over, hold on high, a holdout, holding out on.

Come, keep, grab, have (26): come in hot, it comes in waves, come alive, come to life, come and go, come up short, come out of the closet, when your number comes up, we've come so far, the second coming, grab and go, playing for keeps, grab the bull by its horns, keep it up, upkeep, keep up the good work, up for grabs, grab it up, come away with, keep an eye out, come out of your shell, keep your distance, first come first serve, (2): "Morning that comes but once," and "The Life we have is very great" by Emily Dickinson.

Exciting Things in Containers

Heat (15): a hot house, housewarming, packing heat, hotbox, a dumpster fire, engulfed in flames, catch fire, catch hell, carry fire in one hand and water in the other, fire in the hole, hellhole, to hell in a handbasket, burning a hole in my pocket (hot~in-in), my ears are burning, cabin fever.

Fluidity (9): a bag of wind, catch air, catch my drift, breathing room, a pot to piss in, mouth watering, butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, wet behind the ears, a bucket of steam, (2): the Irish fairy tale "The Soul Cages," the bag of winds in The Odyssey.

Dynamism (3): spinning in the grave, shaking in my boots (dynamic~in-in), a mixed bag, (2): "My life closed twice before its close" and "The Bustle in a House" by Emily Dickinson.

The Bustle in a House [dynamic~in]
The Morning after Death [bright~static]
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted opon Earth –
The Sweeping up the Heart [up~heart]
And putting Love away
We shall not want to use again
Until Eternity –

—Emily Dickinson, The Bustle in a House

Disorder (9): scumbag, slimebag, a bull in a china shop, junk in the trunk, a barn stormer, house broken, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, crooked as a barrel of fish hooks, catch a break, (1): Pandora's box.

Brightness (3): lightning in a bottle, catch red-handed, carpe diem, (2): pots of gold, "My Cocoon tightens - Colors tease" by Emily Dickinson.

Sound/high pitch (3): a bee in your bonnet, a canary in a coal mine, catch a buzz.

Length (2): a can of worms, grasping at straws.

Spikiness (1): squint like a bag of nails.

Up (4): shut up, wrap it up, bag it up, box up.

Out (3): think outside the box, let the cat out of the bag, out of pocket.

Many (1): catch twenty winks, a mouthful, (2): "More than the Grave is closed to me" by Emily Dickinson, Noah’s Ark.

Other (10): a clown car, a bag of tricks, a trick up your sleeve, a barrel of monkeys, let the cat out of the bag, a bag of weasels, bats in the belfry, a canary in a coal mine, caught with your hand in the cookie jar, a box of birds, (1): The Cave of Treasures.

Monsters (1): the Minotaur in the labyrinth.

Length

Long~cold (1): it'll be a long day in January.

Long~solid (4): long in the tooth, by a long chalk, he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon, long and strong, (7): obelisks, the bronze serpent Nehushtan, long in the tooth, by a long chalk, he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon, long and strong, serpent stones.

Long~static (4): deadline, hold the line, long dead, the king is dead long live the king, (5): "A long - long Sleep - A famous - Sleep," "Her face was in a bed of hair," "Those who have been in the Grave the longest," "To wait an Hour - is long" and "Life is death we're lengthy at" by Emily Dickinson.

Long~order (3): the long arm of the law, the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice, straight laced.

Long~dark (6): cast a long shadow, old sins cast long shadows, all night long, night of the long knives, old sins have long shadows, the thin blue line, (9): eyeliner, Long Black Curl by Alex Bledsoe, the Jolly Green Giant, Gumby, "Presentiment - is that long Shadow - on the Lawn" and "The Night was wide, and furnished scant" by Emily Dickinson, "Black Lines" by Vasily Kandinsky, the French folktale “Bluebeard,” blue ribbons.

Long~short (5): the long and short of it, to make a long story short, take a long walk on a short pier, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, give them and inch and they’ll take a mile.

Long~round (9): headline, make heads or tails out of, run headlong, cross your t's and dot your i's, the long and short of it, the longest way round is the shortest way home, fat finger, dickhead, ball and chain, (12): the ouroboros, the wheel of dharma, dreamcatchers, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, scepters, Zen ensō, Celtic crosses, scarab beetles, lollipops, Tinkertoys, the mythical ball-tailed cat, Noughts & Crosses series by Malorie Blackman, ornamenta ocelli, the oblong effect.

Long~down (4): down the line, lay it on the line, the bottom line, down to the wire, let your hair down, (4): long hair, dresses, Rapunzel, the Christian Cross.

Long~in (9): in the long run, a snake in the grass, pull some strings, pulling your leg, a long time coming, take the long way home, a needle in a haystack, hold an eel by the tail, keep your hair on (British), (3): the mile-wide cauldron of Hymir in Norse myth, the kenning "serpent's lair" meaning gold, "The Brain - is wider than the Sky" by Emily Dickinson.

Long~few (2): the last straw, the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Spikiness

Spiky~solid (5): a bull in a china shop, bullshit, hard-nosed, sharp as a steel trap, tip of the iceberg (spiky~cold/solid), (10): pyramids, obelisks, unicorn horns, horned helmets, crowns, the crown of thorns, The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone by Greg Keyes, horns and tusks and fangs in animals generally, The Tree of Swords and Jewels by C. J. Cherryh.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge.

— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Fowls (Bartlett 2022)

Spiky~static (5): slowpoke, a bed of nails, lock horns, seize the bull by the horns, he who lives by the sword dies by the sword; (1): the kenning "sleep of the sword" meaning death.

Spiky~dark (2): a stab in the dark, as black as the ace of spades, (4): Night of the Long Knives, The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley, Swords Against the Shadowland by Robin Wayne Bailey, the Irish fairy tale "The Black Cross."

Spiky~round (12): poking around, x marks the spot, the hairy eyeball, pointy-headed, square the circle, a sharp eye, a sharp cookie, bullseye, better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, spearheading, darting around, around the corner, (8): the Celtic cross, the Eye of Providence, the star and crescent, Nazar amulets, the Wicca pentacle, the Sigil of Baphomet, the globus cruciger, crowns.

Spiky~down (2): catch a falling knife, fall on your sword.

Spiky~in (5): pull in horns, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, into sharp relief, casket sharp, cloak and dagger, (1): sword swallowing.

Spiky~back (2): stab in the back, backstabbing.

Large Size

Big~cold (1): Norse frost giants.

Big~solid (5): big boned, groundswell, carry a big stick, big brass, the bigger they are the harder they fall, (5): Talos, pyramids, the Statue of Liberty, The Chalk Giants by Keith Roberts, the folk song "The Big Rock Candy Mountains" by Harry McClintock, the giant skeleton yokai Gashadokuro.

Big~static (2): a sleeping giant, the big sleep, (3): The kenning "slayer of giants" meaning Thor, "Life, and Death, and Giants" by Emily Dickinson," the fairy tale "Jack the Giant Killer."

Big~order (4): a tall order, in great measure, a gentle giant, the law of large numbers (frequently applied incorrectly because it’s amusing), big~dark (1): tall dark and handsome.

Big~quiet (1): speak softly and carry a big stick.

Big~down (1): the bigger they are the harder they fall, (1): The Grand Canyon.

Big~in (8): a big heart, the big house, big shoes to fill, big in, big tent, the elephant in the room, have it large, in the grand scheme of things, (1): Super Bowl.

The little space within the heart is as great as this vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun, and the moon, and the stars; fire and lightning and winds are there; and all that now is and all that is not: for the whole universe is in Him [Atman, the Spirit] and He dwells within our heart.

—Chandogya Upanishad, 8.1 (Bartlett 2022)

Big~round (7): my eyes were bigger than my belly, get a big head, swollen head, big balls, the big eye, big eyes, The Big Apple, (1): James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.

Big~small (9): a big baby, big things come in small packages, jumbo shrimp, a big fish in a small pond, all things great and small, on small step for man one giant leap for mankind, little pitchers have big ears, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of giants, great oaks from little acorns grow, (8): the magical staff Ruyi Jingu Bang that can change size from that of a needle to a pillar, the Abenaki Canoe of Gluskab that expands to hold an army or shrinks to fit in a hand, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Little Big by John Crowley, the Irish fairy tale "Fin MacCool, the Three Giants, and the Small Men," "The Big and the Little," by Isaac Asimov, Micromégas by Voltaire, a camel going through the eye of a needle.

Big~few (3): bite the big one, once in a great while, a large unit, (1): "Who Giants know, with lesser Men," by Emily Dickinson.

Other: big old, big time.

Multiplicity

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

— Plotinus, Enneads (Bartlett 2022)

Many~cold (3): too cool, too cool for school, crowned by many winters, (2): the sword name “Juuchi Yosamu” meaning 10,000 Cold Nights, Ice-nine Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.

Many~solid (13): cover a lot of ground, gaining ground, land of plenty, all skin and bones, a lot of irons in the fire, my two cents, all roads lead to Rome, a two way street, all oak and iron bound, a tooth for a tooth (mutiple~solid), full of shit, brick by brick, double in brass, (5): cairns, coin collections, marbles, Eternity Road by Back McDevitt, 30 Rock.

Many~static (10): death by a thousand cuts, die a thousand deaths, still and all, cowards die many times before their death, kill two birds with one stone, seven deadly sins, all show and no go, all-a-mort, full stop, all together now, (6): apocalypses, the seven deadly sins, "All but Death, can be Adjusted," "Ample make this Bed" and "Beauty crowds me till I die" by Emily Dickinson, dismemberment of the dead.

With the jawbone of an ass… have I slain a thousand men.

—The Bible, The Book of Judges 15:16 (Bartlett 2022)

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Many~order (15): all right, all righty then, all right already, even more, even more so, full-figured, all shapes and sizes, all sorts of, it takes all sorts, it’s all part of the plan, all else being equal, all is fair in love and war, all set, all else being equal, right as ninepence, (5): soccer balls, legos, "I many times thought Peace had come" by Emily Dickinson, All Shapes Derive from the Square by Salvador Dali, the ten perfections of Buddhism.

Many~dark (6): blue on blue, a three dog night, zero dark thirty, all night long, all-nighter, all cats are grey at night, (2): spots in animals, Twelfth Night by Shakespeare.

Many~quiet (2): the silent majority, all quiet on the Western Front, (1): the Elmer Fudd expression "be vewy vewy qwiet."

Many~round (23): many moons, all around, full circle, we keep going around and around (dynamic~round/round), an eye for an eye, see eye to eye, the third eye, four-eyes, all eyes on, more than meets the eye, two heads are better than one, go head to head, point by point, don't put all your eggs in one basket, have a lot on the ball, ten a penny, a dime a dozen, a third wheel, a fifth wheel, behind the eight ball, not have all your buttons, all my eye, (19): Argus Panoptes, Cerberus, eye multiplication, head multiplication, "My Eye is fuller than my vase" by Emily Dickinson, the Chinese Nine-headed Bird, the Olympic Rings, polka dots, billiards, marbles, checkers, Christmas tree ornaments, coin collections, poker chips, cookies, gum ball machines, spots in animals generally, the “many eye” yokai Mokumokuren.

Many~in (39): I'm all in, insomuch as, winner takes all, double take, keep it 100, too much information, come one come all, come again, it's all in your head, as much as I need a hole in the head, not much in the way of, forever hold your peace, altogether, in all honesty, all in all, I'm all ears, get a second wind, one in a million, goody two shoes, all hat and no cattle, a mouth full, an ear full, all duck and no dinner, all mouth and no trousers, all hat and no cattle, as full as a boot, full of holes, wear many hats, gain interest, crowd-puller, in your heart of hearts, six pack, (53): pots of gold, treasure chests, the cornucopia, the seven bowls, the quiver with infinite arrows Akshaya Tunir, the second coming, bags of Halloween candy, Noah's Ark, the "4,000 holes" in the Beatles song "A Day in the Life," Bringing It All Back Home (Bob Dylan album), A Million Open Doors by John Barnes, Thebes of the Hundred Gates by Robert Silverberg, Hundred-Gated Thebes, Hekatompylos translation "one hundred gates," "The Heart has many Doors" by Emily Dickinson, the ceremonial dwile flonking mantra "pot pot pot," the Noble Eightfold Path, Wikipedia lists four books, two films, 13 television episodes, 9 albums and 8 songs named “All In.”

Many~down (4): hang ten, six feet under, it's all downhill from here, falling apart, (3): Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne, "Behind Me - dips Eternity" and "Not so the infinite Relations - Below" by Emily Dickinson.

Ring around the rosie,
A pocket full of posies.
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down!

—“Ring a Ring o' Roses," nursery rhyme and folk song

Many~small (2): a small fortune, three skips of a louse, (1): "All I may, if small" by Emily Dickinson.

Many~few (38): e pluribus unum, much ado about nothing, much less, less is more, double or nothing, all rolled into one, all in one, once and for all, first of all, all for one and one for all, seen one seen them all, all dressed up and nowhere to go, come one come all, a bit much, nothing much, a whole lot of nothing, one too many, every once in a while, every single time, too close for comfort, I'll try anything once, two's company and three's a crowd, second to none, one in a million, two sides of the same coin, give them an inch and they'll take a mile, all and some, all kinds of one, all the one, one card short of a full deck (humorous), one brick short of a load (humorous), one over the eight, a Jack of all trades and master of none, half a dozen, six of one half a dozen of the other, too clever by half, be all brawn and no brains, (44): 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "All things swept sole away," "Not any more to be lacked," "One and One - are One," "One Anguish - in a Crowd," "One Life of so much Consequence!" and "Her Losses make our Gains ashamed" by Emily Dickinson, Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare, the Mexican fairy tale "God Gives a Hundred for One," Hawaii Five-0, Wikipedia lists four films, four albums and 25 songs named “One in a Million.”

All the people arose as one man.

—The Bible, The First Book of Samuel 20:8 (Bartlett 2022)

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

— Hesiod, Works and Days (Bartlett 2022)

All this happened, more or less.

—Kurt Vonnegut, opening of Slaughterhouse-Five

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

—Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu (Bartlett 2023)

Many~good (6): all in good time, it's all good, a good many, all good things must come to an end, the greater good, too good to be true.

Many~back (3): hindsight is 2020, leave it all behind, behind the eight ball.

Good and Bad

Imperturbable, resolute, tree-like, slow to speak—such a one is near to Goodness.

— Confucius, Analects 13:27 (Bartlett 2022)

Fluid~good (3): right as rain, well-oiled machine, it's an ill wind that blows no good, dynamic~good (7): good to go, good going, live well, alive and well, let the good times roll, got a good thing going, no good dead goes unpunished, the good life, bright~good (3): good morning, good day, as good as gold, out~good (3): as good as gone, gone for good, so far so good, (1): Good Will Hunting, many~good (7): it’s all good, all in good time, that’s all very well, that’s all well and good, so good, a good many, a lot of good that did, goody two-shoes, novel~good (1): as good as new, bad~good (2): take the good with the bad, bad money drives out good, (1): the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, divine~good (2): good god, God is good.

An ill wind that bloweth no man to good.

— John Heywood (Bartlett 2022)

The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it.

— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (Bartlett 2022)

Bad~solid (2): bad to the bone, bad iron, bad~static (2): no rest for the wicked, stay out of trouble, bad~dark (2) blue devils, black as the devil, bad~in (2): in the wrong, feed the beast, bad~down (1): in deep trouble, bad~few (2): not half bad, the lesser of two evils, bad~round (2): the evil eye, a bad apple.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.

— The Bible, The Book of Job 20:12 (Bartlett 2022)

Gender

Male~cold (6): Yeti, Jack Frost, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus, the Winter Soldier, Vanilla Ice, male~solid (8): a tough guy, a good man is hard to find, hatchet man, man on the street, man on the ground, a man’s home is his castle, high man on the totem pole, no man’s land, (14): Talos, King Midas, the Sandman, Darth Vader, Storm Troopers, C-3PO, R2-D2, Ironman, the Man of Steel, the Terminator, Rocky Balboa, Groot, The Thing (Ben Grimm), the Metal Men, Ninja Turtles, Metallica, The Rock, Fred Flintstone,Ice Cube, male~static (2): dead man walking, deadbeat dad, male~order (7): Mr. right, right-hand man, man with the plan, just a regular guy, mister nice guy, even Steven, male~dark (2): tall dark and handsome, men in black, blue-eyed boy, (6): Little Boy Blue, Darth Vader, Blue Man Group, Men in Black, the Green Knight, the Jolly Green Giant, male~down (3): fall guy, you can’t keep a good, man down (humorous), male~in (7): a man after my own heart, man-eater, man cave, the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, homeboy, jack it in, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do, nothing is so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse, Johnny-come-lately, (2): James Bond, Oscar the Grouch, male~few (3) one-man band, just one of the guys, man of few words, (1): Han Solo, male~round (2): Johnny on the spot, oh boy, (2) the man in the moon, Packman, male~small (2): a man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle, (1): the German fairy tale The Three Little Men in the Wood.

The first man is of the earth, earthy.

—The Bible, The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians 15:47

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

—The Bible, The Book of Judges 5:27 (Bartlett 2022)

Hot~female (1): Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, fluid~female (1): there she blows (6): mermaids, sirens, river numphs, Bloody Mary, the birth of Aphrodite, Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde, the Lady of the Lake, disorder~female (3): crazy cat lady (humorous), let her rip, like a mad woman’s custard, (2): Tiamat, Pandora, Raggedy Ann, dynamic~female (2): you go girl, steady as she goes, (1): Atalanta, bright~female (2): Little Red Riding Hood, Rainbow Bright, high pitch/loud~female (1): the Sirens, up~female (1): heavens to Betsy, (6): fairies, angels, valkyries, flying witches, Rapunzel, Mary Poppins, out~female (1): girls night out, many~female (1): the whole shebang.

There is no animal more invincible than a woman, nor fire either, nor any wildcat so ruthless.

— Aristophanes, Lysistrata (Bartlett 2022)

In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand.

—Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur (Bartlett 2022)

I’m a fast speaking woman
I’m a fast-rolling woman
I’m a rolling-speech woman
I’m a rolling-water woman

—Anne Waldman, “Fast Speaking Woman and Other Chants” (Bartlett 2022)