The depreciation and amortization items added to earnings are both non-cash accounting entries. Depreciation is used to write down the cost of capital items purchased by a business and amortization is for intangible items.
Long experience of someone or something can make one so aware of the faults as to be scornful. For example, Ten years at the same job and now he hates it-familiarity breeds contempt. The idea is much older, but the first recorded use of this expression was in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee (c. 1386).
Sic him Jenny Jinxâmake him say âUncleâ. The phrase may come from the punchline of a joke that was popular in the 1890s. Douglas Wilson (one of this siteâs regulars) discovered this version of the joke in the Iowa Citizen, 9 October 1891: A gentleman was boasting that his parrot would repeat anything he told him.