Despite its pronunciation, just deserts, with one s, is the proper spelling for the phrase meaning "the punishment that one deserves."  The phrase is even older than dessert, using an older noun version of desert meaning "deserved reward or punishment," which is spelled like the arid land, but pronounced like the sweet treat.  https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/just-deserts-or-just-desserts 

The big cheese is the person who holds the most power in any situation.  If you overhear someone at work describe you as "the big cheese," it means that he thinks of you as the most important person in the office.  You might also call someone important the head honcho or the top dog.  The idiomatic phrase big cheese comes from a definition of cheese that comes from Urdu, in which chiz means "a thing."  The British colonization of India brought English speakers and Urdu speakers together, and one result was the phrase "the real chiz" to mean "a big thing or event."  This evolved over time into big cheese.  https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/big%20cheese  

The Maison carrée (French for "square house") is an ancient Roman temple in Nîmes, southern France; it is one of the best-preserved Roman temples to survive in the territory of the former Roman Empire.  It is a mid-sized Augustan provincial temple of the Imperial cult, a caesareum.  The Maison carrée inspired the neoclassical Église de la Madeleine in Paris, St. Marcellinus Church in Rogalin, Poland, and in the United States the Virginia State Capitol, which was designed by Thomas Jefferson, who had a stucco model made of the Maison carrée while he was minister to France in 1785.  In September 2023, the Maison carrée of Nîmes was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_carr%C3%A9e  

“Nothing to do and we do it all the time.”

 “The Northeast coast blossomed . . . what in 1899 Thorstein Veblen would call conspicuous consumption.”

“The pitch of a roof is measured by comparing the horizontal with the vertical.  If the roof rises six inches each horizontal foot, it is called a six-pitch roof.”

The Big House:  A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt

galvanic  (gal-VAN-ik) adjective
1.  Stimulating; energizing; shocking.
2.  Relating to electric current, especially direct current.

After Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), physician and physicist known for his pioneering experiments on the electrical stimulation of animal tissues, which demonstrated the existence of electricity within biological organisms. Earliest documented use: 1797.  A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg 

Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages:  convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand. - Mark Abley, writer and editor (b. 13 May 1955)  

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2813  May 13, 2024