It’s back to the ole grindstone!
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Grind Stone Haters! And now for some useless knowledge about the grindstone!
Keep your nose to the grindstone
Meaning:
Apply yourself conscientiously to your work.
Origin:
There are two rival explanations as to the origin of this phrase. One is that it comes from the supposed habit of millers who checked that the stones used for grinding cereal weren’t overheating by putting their nose to the stone in order to smell any burning. The other is that it comes from the practice of knife grinders when sharpening blades to bend over the stone, or even to lie flat on their fronts, with their faces near the grindstone in order to hold the blades against the stone.
All the evidence is against the miller’s tale. Firstly, the stones used by millers were commonly called millstones, not grindstones. The two terms were sometimes interchanged but the distinction between the two was made at least as early as 1400, when this line was printed in Turnament Totenham: “Ther was gryndulstones in gravy, And mylstones in mawmany.”
Anyway, what ever that means, but I am sure we all get the gist!
Here is Emma keeping her nose to her grindstone!
More applying yourself conscientiously to your work later…..Cat, Chaps and Emma
Comments(4)
I don’t know what Emma is dreaming about–but that sure is a sweet smile.
I know my grindstone isn’t as comfortable as Emma’s!!!
Cat, it is amazing how you come up with this stuff.
Emmers, I want to spoon with you!
This shows that Our Emma works too hard.