More on Round as a Ball from Infoplease:

• Round as a Ball; - Round as a Ball; ... as an apple, as an orange, etc. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. ...
• The Ox and the Frog - Two little Frogs were playing about at the edge of a pool when an Ox came down to the water to drink, and by accident trod on one of them and crushed
• John Donne: A Valediction of Weeping - Let me pour forth My tears before thy face, whilst I stay here,
• football - football football, any of a number of games in which two opposing teams attempt to score points by ...
• Calculate - Calculate is from the Latin calculi (pebbles), used by the Romans for counters. In the abacus, the ...