Beef Wellington is a baked steak dish made out of fillet steak and duxelles wrapped in shortcrust pastry. Some recipes include wrapping the contents in prosciutto, or dry-cured ham, which helps retain moisture while preventing the pastry from becoming soggy; use of puff pastry; or coating the beef in mustard. Classical recipes may include pâté. While historians generally believe that the dish is named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, the precise origin of the name is unclear and no definite connection between the dish and the duke has been found. Leah Hyslop, writing in The Daily Telegraph, observed that by the time Wellington became famous, meat baked in pastry was a well-established part of English cuisine, and that the dish's similarity to the French filet de bœuf en croûte (fillet of beef in pastry) might imply that "beef Wellington" was a "timely patriotic rebranding of a trendy continental dish". However, she cautioned, there are no 19th-century recipes for the dish. There is a mention of "fillet of beef, à la Wellington" in the Los Angeles Times of 1903, and an 1899 reference in a menu from the Hamburg-America line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_Wellington
Beef Wellington--based
on Gordon Ramsay’s beef Wellington recipe https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/beef_wellington/
vendetta (plural vendettas or vendette) noun Revenge
A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud.
A motivational grudge against
a person or faction, which may or may not be reciprocated; the
state of having it in for someone.
personal vendetta blood vendetta
Borrowed from Italian vendetta (“revenge”), from Latin vindicta.
See vindicate, avenge.
It’s always a relief to hear that someone or something will be right as rain—a.k.a., back to normal and doing well. But when you think about it literally, it’s not immediately obvious what being right as rain would mean. So where did we get this curious expression from, and what’s so right about rain, anyway? The origins of the phrase date all the way back to 1400, when the Medieval poem “Roman de la rose” (“Romance of the Rose”) used the phrase “right as an adamant,” referring to a diamond or lodestone. A similar 1546 proverb offered the much catchier “right as a line.” The idea was that the “right” object would not only be something neat or straight but have a more metaphorical correctness and properness to it. The phrasing must have really stuck with readers because the formula thrived for centuries after that. Some interesting examples include right as a gun, right as my leg, right as ninepence, and right as a trivet, the latter notably used in 1837 by Charles Dickens in The Pickwick Papers. None of those options have the same ring to them as right as rain does, though. This particular iteration emerged in late-19th century Britain, with one of the first printings appearing in an 1886 issue of the London newspaper The Weekly Dispatch. A couple decades later, Max Beerbohm used it alongside a similar alliterative idiom in his book Yet Again: “He looked, as himself would undoubtedly have said, ‘fit as a fiddle’; or ‘right as rain.’” It’s thought by some that right as rain is likely a reflection of the typical English weather. As the forecast in the United Kingdom is so notoriously grey, nothing could be “righter,” or more as things should be, than a rainy day. Right as rain quickly replaced its other variants and has been in the lexicon since then. The alliteration of the rs really adds to the cheery feeling of the phrase, helping to emphasize its positive meaning. https://www.mentalfloss.com/why-do-we-say-right-as-rain
Remembrance Day proper noun
(Commonwealth) November 11th, observed in commemoration of
those in the armed forces who died in the line of duty;
especially those who died during the two world wars.
Synonyms
Veterans Day (US)
Armistice Day (Canada, US, dated) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day
November 11,
2025
