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Etcetera
   means   
And the Rest
Usually "etc."

Language > Latin Phrases


Rest
   are used in   
Snooker
A stick with an X-shaped head that is used to support the cue when the player's arm is too short.

Sports & Leisure > Sports Equipment


King John
   ends   
"If England to Itself Do Rest but True."
O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.

Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Closing Lines


Fermata
   means   
The Holding of a Musical Note or Rest for Longer Than Its Usual Duration
Also the notation of such a prolongation, usually represented as a dot with a semi-circle above it, written above the clef.

Language > Interesting Words


Johnny Frank Garrett
   uttered the last words   
"I'd Like to Thank My Family for Loving Me and Taking Care of Me. And the Rest of the World Can Kiss My Ass."
A Texas inmate executed for rape and murder.

History & Mythology > Famous Last Words


François Rabelais
   uttered the last words   
"I Owe Much; I Have Nothing; the Rest I Leave to the Poor"
Writer, d. 1553

History & Mythology > Famous Last Words


Cetera Desunt
   means   
The Rest is Missing
Language > Latin Phrases


Requiescat in Pace
   means   
May He/she Rest in Peace
RIP

Language > Latin Phrases


2 Kings
   describes   
The Narrative About Elijah and Elisha and the Rest of the Kings Through the Babylonian Captivity
Old Testament Prophets

Arts & Literature > Books of the Bible


John Updike
   wrote   
Rabbit at Rest
1990; winner, Pulitizer Prize, 1991

Arts & Literature > Books


Don't Rest Your Eyes
      
Beyond What is Your Own
Language > Irish Proverbs


Our House
   has the lyric:   
Father Wears His Sunday Best, Mother's Tired She Needs a Rest
Madness

Music > Name That Song


Better Man
   has the lyric:   
Send Someone to Love Me I Need to Rest in Arms
Robbie Williams

Music > Name That Song


Rabbit At Rest
   was written by   
John Updike
1991

Arts & Literature > Pulitzer Prize for Fiction


Adnah
   means   
Eternal Rest
Arts & Literature > Biblical Name Meanings


A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
   has the last line:   
“It’s a Far, Far Better Thing I Do Than I Have Ever Done. It’s a Far, Far Better Rest I Go to Than I Have Ever Known.”
Ronald Coleman and Elizabeth Allan

Movies > Films - Last Lines


Rephidim
   means   
Places of Rest
Arts & Literature > Biblical Name Meanings


Shabbethai
   means   
My Rest
Arts & Literature > Biblical Name Meanings


Timnath-heres
   means   
Numbering of the Rest
Arts & Literature > Biblical Name Meanings


Angler's Rest
   appears in   
Pub in the Mr Mulliner Stories
Of P.G.Wodehouse

Entertainment > Fictional Bars


Henry Maudslay
   invented   
The Slide Rest
He invented the 'slide rest' which let the tool rest slide the length of a lathe and be accurately set simply by using a handle. Later he devised a method of moving the rest by turning a handle.

Science & Nature > Inventors


Your Feet Are Bigger in the Afternoon Than the Rest of the Day
   is   
True
Always shop for shoes in the afternoon as your feet swell through use throughout the day.

Misc > True or False


80 Beats Per Minute is the Average Pulse Rate for an Adult at Rest
   is   
False
70 beats p/minute

Misc > True or False


Utica Club
   used the slogan   
"We Drink All We Can. The Rest We Sell."
Entertainment > Advertising Slogans


God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
   was written by   
Unknown
First published in 1833 in England in a collection of seasonal carols collected by William B. Sandys called "Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern." This is the carol of Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" written in 1843.

Music > Songs - Christmas


Lay-by
   in American would be   
Rest Stop
Language > British - American


The Lost Weekend (1945)
   has the last line:   
"Such Comical Figures to the Rest of the World As They Stagger Blindly Towards Another Binge, Another Bender, Another Spree.”
Ray Milland

Movies > Films - Last Lines


GoodFellas (1990)
   has the last line:   
“I'm an Average Nobody. I Get to Live the Rest of My Life Like a Schnook.”
Movies > Films - Last Lines


Woody Allen
   said   
"Most of the Time I Don't Have Much Fun. The Rest of the Time I Don't Have Any Fun at All."
Language > Quotations


John Berryman
   wrote   
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
1968

Arts & Literature > Books


Terror (1978)
   has the tagline   
It Was Buried a Hundred Years...but Never Laid to Rest
Movies > Movie Taglines


Doss
   is   
Rest or Sleep
Language > Four-letter Words


Daniel W. Joselyn
   said   
"Rest is Not a Matter of Doing Absolutely Nothing. Rest is Repair."
Language > Quotations


Aldous Huxley
   said   
"What the Rest of Us See Only Under the Influence of Mescalin, the Artist is Congenitally Equipped to See All the Time."
From "The Doors of Perception"

Language > Quotations


Norman Vincent Peale
   said   
"Throw Your Heart over the Fence and the Rest Will Follow."
Language > Quotations


Este
   is the elvish word for   
Rest
Language > J.R.R. Tolkien Elvish - English


Séra
   is the elvish word for   
Rest
Language > J.R.R. Tolkien Elvish - English


Rest
   in French is   
Repos
Language > English - French


Prone the Body
   is hobo slang for   
To Lie Down and Rest
Language > Hobo Slang


Lifeboat (Cannibalism)
   contains the line   
We Can Eat the Rest of Johnson Cold for Supper.
... after that we can eat the rest of Johnson cold for supper.

Entertainment > Monty Python - Memorable Lines


Boxing Commentary
   contains the line   
... Pity the Rest of His Body Wasn't There to See It
What a plucky fighter this Champ is ... Must be losing blood at a rate of a pint a second now ... those who paid one and a half million dollars for those ringside seats are really getting their money's worth ... And his head's off! ... the referee raises the arm of the new World Heavyweight Champion. What a pity the rest of his body wasn't there to see it.

Entertainment > Monty Python - Memorable Lines


Glenn Miller
   released the single   
I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest
1941

Music > Sounds of the 1940s


Cap Arm
   describes   
The Copper Pipe That Connects the Cap to the Rest of the Still
Misc > Moonshining Terminology


After a Rest They Will Travel to Epirus, Great Help Coming from Around Antioch.
   is found in   
Century I, Quatrain No.74
After a rest they will travel to Epirus, great help coming from around Antioch. The curly haired king will strive greatly for the Empire, the brazen beard will be roasted on a spit.

History & Mythology > Nostradamus Quatrains


Resort
   is an anagram of   
Or Rest
Language > Anagrams


Rest
   in Greek is   
υπόλοιπο
Language > English - Greek


Inertia
   means   
Tendency of a Body to Remain at Rest or Move in Straight Line
Science & Nature > General Scientific Terms


Potential Energy
   means   
Amount of Useable Energy Within a Body at Rest
Science & Nature > General Scientific Terms


Clinomania
   is an obsession with   
Bed Rest
Language > Manias


Tunnel Of Love
   features   
Tougher Than The Rest
1987, UK 13

Music > Albums -- Bruce Springsteen








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