All 29 Uses
Euclid
in
Angela's Ashes
(Edited)
- The first day of school in September he writes on the blackboard three words which are to stay there the rest of the year, Euclid, geometry, idiot.
Chpt 6 *Euclid = Greek mathematician known as the Father of Geometry
- He says anyone who doesn't understand the theorems of Euclid is an idiot.
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- Now, repeat after me, Anyone who doesn't understand the theorems of Euclid is an idiot.
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- Sir, what's a theorem and what's a Euclid?
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- The boy who wants to know something about the grace, elegance and beauty of Euclid can go nowhere but up.
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- Without Euclid, boys, mathematics would be a poor doddering thing.
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- Without Euclid we wouldn't be able to go from here to there.
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- Without Euclid the bicycle would have no wheel.
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- Without Euclid St. Joseph could not have been a carpenter for carpentry is geometry and geometry is carpentry.
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- Without Euclid this very school could never have been built.
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- Paddy Clohessy mutters behind me, Feckin' Euclid.
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- I said we should get down on our two knees and thank God for Euclid.
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- Euclid, boys, was a Greek.
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- Euclid was a Greek.
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- After school we tell Brendan he has to ask the question tomorrow, What use is Euclid and all those lines that go on forever when the Germans are bombing everything?
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- Sir, what use is Euclid and all the lines when the Germans are bombing everything that stands?
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- What use is Euclid?
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- Without Euclid the Messerschmitt could never have taken to the sky.
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- Without Euclid the Spitfire could not dart from cloud to cloud.
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- Euclid brings us grace and beauty and elegance.
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- Euclid is complete in himself and divine in application.
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- To love Euclid is to be alone in this world.
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- Now tell me, Clohessy, is that master of yours talking to you about Euclid?
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- He's saying there would be no school without Euclid.
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- Tell him to teach the long division and leave Euclid to me.
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- Tell him Euclid is mine, Mr. O'Halloran, or I'll put a stop to his gallop.
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- Mr. O'Halloran says, Now, Mr. O'Neill, I have asked you before to stay away from Euclid.
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- No more Euclid.
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- Malachy is in fifth class now with Mr. O'Dea and he likes to tell everyone he's learning the big red catechism for Confirmation and Mr. O'Dea is telling them all about state of grace and Euclid and how the English tormented the Irish for eight hundred long years.
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Definitions:
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(1)
(Euclid) Greek mathematician known as the Father of Geometry (3rd century BC)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Euclid can refer to another person or place with that name.