Being 'on top' of something implies happiness or delight, and 'the world' includes your life, your work, and your family. Being 'on top of the world' represents your feeling of happiness when everything in your life is going favorably.
It comes form the early days of slavery when the rich owners ate the hog meat such as, tenderloin and ribs while the workers ate pigs feet and ham hocks. Those that ate "high on the hog" were living...
Come Again - I do not understand what you are saying.
Origin: The verb 'to come' has always meant to arrive or appear. In this 20th Century African-American expression, 'come' takes on the meaning of...
The idiom "Graveyard shift" started a long time ago when it was harder to tell if somebody is dead. They would put a rope in the coffin leading up to the surface where there would be a bell. A man,...
"The house" in this instance refers to the location, i.e. the bar or tavern or whatever. "On the house" is therefore obvious ... "the house" is paying for it.
This saying means "when your luck changes (from bad to good)" or "when things are running more in your favor". It is probably a throwback to a time when air transport did not exist, and the transport...