Background For Teachers: Water covers 70% of Earth's surface and is found in different locations on Earth. The amount of water in the oceans, atmosphere, and on land is hard to comprehend. Approximately ninety percent (97%) of it is found in the oceans. The atmosphere holds less than 0.001%, about two percent (2%) is found frozen on Earth in glaciers, and one percent (1%) is freshwater found in lakes, rivers and groundwater. Annual precipitation amounts to 30 times the total water found in the atmosphere at any given time.
In this instance the nickname was for an unpredictable, wild individual, from the Middle English and Old French word ramage meaning wild, used of a hawk or other bird of prey living in the branches. The derivation is from the medieval Latin ramaticus, from ramus, branch.
Full Definition of ADAGE. : a saying often in metaphorical form that embodies a common observation. See adage defined for English-language learners.