Zitat des Tages über Knoten / Knot:
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
One trend I always go for is nautical: stripes, navy, rope knot belts, gold buckles.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent.
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself.
You don't have to look any farther than the state of California to know that having a 'Gordian knot' of conflicting measures acting upon on your state budget is a recipe for disaster.
In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. Once, at the premiere of the opera, I got to La Scala before Domenico, and I was hiding in the corner until he arrived, and I said, 'Quick, you have to tie my tie, please!' Otherwise, I'll wear a tuxedo jacket with jeans and my bling-bling cross.