Dogs bark but the caravan moves on
The first citation in English for it offered by the OED comes from a book of 1860 by I. Dass Domestic Manners & Customs of the Hindoos of North India and comes complete with an explanation of its meaning.
Hoorah! It’s the spring or vernal equinox
Today marks the vernal equinox. The event that ought to herald spring, despite the less than springlike weather Britain has been enjoying recently. While the meteorologists have already kicked 'spring' off to a start at the beginning of the month, today is when 'astronomical spring' begins.
Nuts, nostalgia and ‘as sweet as a nut’.
Nuts feature in two types of metaphor The first is a euphemism for, ahem, testicles. Clearly perceived similarity of shape is the root or the ‘grounds’ of the metaphor. The popular Australian brand of edible nuts ‘Nobby’s Nuts’ exploits potential double-entendres to the full, particularly in an ad it used a while back: ‘Nibble Nobby’s Nuts.’
Jeremy Butterfield Editorial 