Use of hill to die on - English Language Usage Stack Exchange [Noun phrase]: hill to die on (plural hills to die on) (idiomatic usage): An issue to pursue with wholehearted conviction and or single-minded focus, with little or no regard to the cost Etymology: an allusion to the military practice of capturing holding a hill (high ground), no matter the cost or (lack of) benefit, as in the Battle of
Granite Hill Lake - PK Resort | Michigan Sportsman Forum We are very experienced fly-in fishermen and there were others in camp that were not catching fish We caught around 200 walleyes for the week which we thought was slow and most were undersized In fairness August fishing is generally slower We also fished the lakes adjoining Granite Hill with no success View attachment 320579 View attachment
“peak” vs “summit” - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The OED defines summit, in its topological sense, as ‘the topmost point or ridge of a mountain or hill’ For a peak it gives ‘the pointed top or summit of a mountain; a mountain or hill having a more or less pointed summit, or being conical in form ’ There is a clear difference here: peaks can be summits, but not all summits are peaks
Calling All Fruit Tree Addicts Blue Hill Nursery Is Taking Orders Just a shout out Blue Hill Wildlife Nursery is already taking orders for next year for you addicts Usually Ryan doesn’t take orders until the end of August Hard to find varieties are available before it hits all the internet It looks like he has a bumper crop
Blue Hill fruit trees - Michigan Sportsman Forum I ordered (7) from Blue Hill in the fall of 2022 and all trees are doing great with above average growth on my property I ordered (4) more this year: (1) Candy crab, (1) Turning Point crab, (1) Big dog crab, (1) Hunters deer pear $47 freight for me 2023 and $40 freight in 2022
What is the origin of the phrase A Mountain Im Willing to Die On? Although the heavily fortified Hill 937 was of little strategic value, U S command ordered its capture by a frontal assault The hill was finally taken at the cost of 72 Americans killed and 372 wounded Losses on the North Vietnamese side are estimated at more than 630 dead
What does run for the hills really refer to? And from "Bull Hill Man Escapes," in the Aspen [Colorado] Weekly Times (April 20, 1895): C A Dunn, a Bull Hill man in jail awaiting sentence, broke loose at noon today by sawing a bar on the bathroom window Officers placed on his trail two bloodhounds Dunn made a motion for a new trial yesterday but the motion was overruled
Blue Hill Nursery Trees | Michigan Sportsman Forum Blue Hill has leftover trees available if anyone is still looking, some marked down to $20 for 2 year old trees Min of (4) trees per order View attachment 1015307
Its all downhill from here—meaning and etymology Although it would seem that going down a hill is easier than going up, downhill has meant a decline since the 1500s, although Daniel Defoe also used it in the sense of easy ("a very short cut, and all down hill," Robinson Crusoe, 1719) An 1856 history of England had the sense of declining: "The monks had traveled swiftly on the downhill road