Caffeine is found naturally in cocoa beans, so any chocolate has a little bit of the stimulant. Candy bars generally have less than 10 milligrams, but the darker the chocolate, the higher the caffeine content. Hersheyâs Special Dark Chocolate Bar has a whopping 31 milligrams, almost as much as a can of Coke!
Burn the candle at both ends is a fairly old idiom. We will look at the meaning of the term burn the candle at both ends, where it comes from, and some examples of the idiomâs meaning in sentences. To burn the candle at both ends means to exhaust oneself by working too much, going to bed late and getting up early. When one burns the candle at both ends, he is living at a frenetic pace. The term burn the candle at both ends is derived from the French phrase Brusler la chandelle par les deux bouts. Coined around the beginning of the seventeenth century, the early meaning of burn the candle at both ends was to be a spendthrift, to be wasteful.
carry a torch may derive from the Greek wedding torch tradition. From the metaphor of a burning flame, to keep a fire burning. The association of a torch with love may date to the Greek and Roman tradition of a wedding torch, lit in the brideâs hearth on her wedding night, then used to light the hearth in her new home.