end of the world, it's not/wouldn't be the

It’s not that disastrous a calamity. This hyperbole of reassurance dates from the late nineteenth century. George Bernard Shaw used it in Major Barbara (1907): “Nothing’s going to happen to you . . . it wouldn’t be the end of the world if anything did.”

See also: end, not, of

The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer

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turn over in one's grave, (enough to make one)
fighting mad
hear a pin drop, one/you could
cold shoulder, to give/show the
take to it like a duck to water, to
slow as (slower than) molasses (in January)
cat got your tongue, has the
bottle up feelings, to
cat that swallowed the canary, (look) like the
ride hell (bent) for leather, to

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释义	end of the world, it's not/wouldn't be the end of the world, it's not/wouldn't be the It’s not that disastrous a calamity. This hyperbole of reassurance dates from the late nineteenth century. George Bernard Shaw used it in Major Barbara (1907): “Nothing’s going to happen to you . . . it wouldn’t be the end of the world if anything did.” See also: end, not, of The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: turn over in one's grave, (enough to make one) fighting mad hear a pin drop, one/you could cold shoulder, to give/show the take to it like a duck to water, to slow as (slower than) molasses (in January) cat got your tongue, has the bottle up feelings, to cat that swallowed the canary, (look) like the ride hell (bent) for leather, to
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