DEAR JOHN LETTER

This is not any kind of letter.

A 'dear John letter' is a letter written to a husband or boyfriend to let him know the wife/girlfriend is no longer interested in him and she wants to start seeing other people. Nice, eh?

BURY THE HATCHET

http://www.trivalleylifechurch.org/2012/12/03/burying-the-hatchet/

How many times have you heard the saying, “Let’s just bury the hatchet!”?  It carries the meaning of resolving conflict in a relationship by forgetting the past.

CHERRY PICK

 to select the best or most desirable

e.g.

We got an entry in the forum from a user asking several questions about merging and cherry-picking and I was about answering it when I realized the questions might be good for a wider audience, so here I’m writing a new blog post!

http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2012/05/cherry-pick-vs-merge.html

or

Is there a way to cherry pick packages from a ppa repository you add? That is, to exclude some from updating while including others?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/170235/how-do-i-cherry-pick-packages-from-a-ppa

OLD WIVES' TALE

If you step on a crack, odds are, you won’t break your mama’s back. Yep, there are plenty of old wives’ tales out there that have long been debunked by science — your body really doesn’t take years to digest gum — or reason — even if your eyes are twitching, you probably won’t come into a pile of riches. But let’s give our ancestors a little credit, shall we? Indeed, there are some old wives’ tales that are totally, completely real. Click through to read more about them.

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/old-wives-tales-true.html

SUPERSTITION