The theory goes that in ancient times the pupil of The surviving goat then had the sins of the priest and the people transferred to it by the priest's confession, after which it was taken into the wilderness and allowed to escape, hence 'scapegoat' ('scape' was K/k Today we do not think of a coach as a particularly speedy vehicle, 'Ring' 1300s (first recorded in 1373) initially as French 'dent-de-lyon', evolving through dandelyon, also producing the surname Daundelyon, before arriving at its current English form. Joseph Guillotine, and my understanding always was that Guillotine merely advocated the use of a beheading device, a very similar form of which was apparently known in Germany a couple of centuries before the French Revolution, because it produced twit was an informal verb meaning to tease or taunt someone, typically in a light-hearted way, from Old English aetwitan (= 'reproach with') from the separate words 'aet', at, and 'witan', to blame. pleased as punch/proud as punch Strangely Brewer references Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 3, which seems to be an error since the verse is definitely 10. apple-pie bed hundreds of years ago, retailing (selling goods to customers) was commonly done by the manufacturers of the goods concerned: i.e., independent (manufacturing) shops made and sold their goods from the same premises to local customers, so the meaning Shakespeare used the expression more than once in his plays, notably in Love's Labour's Lots were drawn to determine It's all about fear, denial and guilt. a cat may look on a king/a cat may look at a king/a cat may laugh at a queen Unofficial references and opinions about the 'whatever floats your boat' cliche seem to agree the origins are American, but other than that we are left to speculate how cut the mustard - retribution or retaliation, an exchange insults or attacks - 'tit for tat' evolved from 'tip for tap', a middle English expression for blow for blow, which also meant a trade of verbal insults. (I should bloody well - based in Greenwich, London, the only surviving tea clipper and 'extreme' clipper (fast sailing ship used especially in the China tea trade) - the term 'cutty sark' means 'short shift' (a shift was a straight unwaisted dress Others have suggested the POSH cabins derived from transatlantic voyages (UK to USA) whose wealthy passengers preferred the sun both ways. The safety call could be made from a vessel for such messages as a warning of a partly submerged object. did calm, and it must be true because Brewer says that the Venerable Bede said he heard the story from 'a most creditable man in holy orders'. been regarded as exotic or weird pickles, but this derivation seems extremely tenuous. turn from Latin lumbulus and lumbus, loin. - (reference to) an unusual or notable person - opinions are divided on this one - almost certainly 'card' in this sense is based on based on playing cards - meaning that a person is a tricky one ('card') to play (as One assumes that the two virgin daughters were completely happy about their roles as fodder in this episode. 1870 Brewer says it's from Welsh, meaning equivalent. left in the lurch It almost certainly originally derives from the English Skeat's Etymology Dictionary of 1882-84 explains that a piggin is a small wooden vessel (note wooden not clay), related to eeny meeney miney moe/eenie meenie miney mo The constant 'goggle-gobble' chattering associated with turkey birds would have appealed as a metaphorical notion in this expression, as would the image of turkeys pecking 'down-to-earth', and being a commodity subject to vigorous and no-nonsense (in a food sense) - course of life - relates so strongly to the modern idea that 'we are what we eat', and that diet is so closely linked to how we feel and behave as people. salamander, receiving the comment that it was not a salamander, it was a 'gerry-mander'. sort of torture - and potentially the fact that it is a recurring experience also feature in the meaning and use of the expression. jealousy from others) - the 'goody two shoes' expression seems certainly to derive from a children's tale attributed to and probably written by Irish-born writer Oliver Goldsmith, published in 1765, in which the central figure (Miss Goody) achieves on this page) While some etymology sources suggest that 'k' (obviously of a science fiction film. meaning father). The effort very nearly flies and ointment serve as a metaphor to reinforce the point that people seeking to be wise and honourable should not behave foolishly. make ends meet coast in September 1588, other ships were certainly wrecked and damaged in the seas around Ireland. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) from his book Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605-1615), although given likely earlier usage, Cervantes probably helped to popularise the expression rather than devise it. Most people imagine that the bucket is a pail (perhaps suggesting a receptacle), but in fact bucket refers to the old pulley-beam and Some of the meanings also relate to brass being a very hard and resilient material. L - indiscriminately mingling or mixing, normally referring to sexual relations/(promiscuity being the noun form for the behaviour) - these words are here because they are a fine example of how strict dictionary meanings was commanded by Zeus not to open. in the air. A teetotum from the same period was an alcohol-free working man's club. the popularity of the expression it claims to have spawned, because it becomes part of folklore and urban story-telling, so in a way it helps promote the expression, but it certainly isn't the root of it. Frankish would be the premium drinks brands. The 'have no truck with' expression has been used for centuries: Chambers indicates the first recorded use in English of the 'have no truck with' expression was in 1615. There is also a fundamental association between the game of darts and 'gone south' 1800s. The German 'Hals- und Beinbruch' most likely predates the English 'break a leg', and the English Z. Cliches and expressions give us many wonderful figures of speech and words in the English language, as they evolve via use and mis-use alike. When the scandal was exposed during the 2007 phone-voting premium-line The reverse psychology helps one to 'stay grounded' so to speak. versions suggest that the Irish were 'emigrants', although in truth it is more likely that many of these Irish people were Catholic slaves, since the English sent tens of thousands of Irish to be slaves on the Caribbean islands in the 17th Brewer's 1876 slang dictionary significantly does not refer to piggy bank or pig bank (probably because the expression carnage, no doubt remembering sadly the mums and toddlers she'd had to leave behind to be exterminated along with their anally fixated menfolk. ampersand The website goes on to suggest a fascinating if unlikely alternative derivation: In the late 1500s an artillery range attached to Ramsay's Fort was alongside the Leith golf links in Edinburgh. actions. Cassells inserts a hyphen and expands the meaning of the German phrase, 'Hals-und Beinbruch', As this was speech, I have no proof of this, develop to mean something specific and different through popular use. a light wound; a paymaster (also 'buckshee king'), and a greedy soldier at mealtimes. The any other. The origin of that saying If anyone knows of any specific references which might support this notion and to link it with the Black Irish expression please tell me. not know someone/something from a hole in the wall/ground/a tree a licence to print money 'over the top' expression - and likely contributing to the use and meaning of the cliche - was however rather more serious, referring to infantry charges from 1914-18 1st World War front-line battle trenches, particularly in France and Belgium, No reliable sources refer In what situation/context and region have you read/heard 'the whole box and die'? this website. woman coincidentally owned by each of the attacker's victims. I say this because the item entry, which is titled 'Skeleton', begins with the 'there is Brewer asserts that the French corrupted, (or more likely misinterpreted) the word 'fierche' informed (thanks K Korkodilos) that the 'my bad' expression was used in the TV series 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', and that this seems to have increased its popular mainstream usage during the 1990s, moreover people using the expression admitted since this was long before the choices offered by IKEA and MFI, etc. See also 'pipped at the post' (the black ball was called a pip - after the pip of a fruit, in turn from earlier similar words which meant the fruit itself, eg pippin, and the Greek, pepe for melon - so pipped became another way or saying blackballed footloose/footloose and fancy free The balls were counted and if there were more blacks than reds or whites then the membership application This The origin derives apparently from a real saloon-keeper called Mickey Finn, who ran the Lone Star and Palm Saloons in Chicago from around 1896-1906. which came from confusing thunder and lightening with meteor strikes and shooting stars, and was later superseded by 'thunderbolt' ('bolt' as in the short arrow fired from a cross bow). a stone in our shoe. This was notably recorded as a proverb written by a project or group or relationship - sources (Chambers, RL Chapman US Slang) place the first recorded origins around 1920s in the US, in which the bum would have been a tramp or a drunkard, and the rush referred to the action and effect of forcible There are other variations, which I'd be pleased to include here if you wish to send your own, ideally with details of when and where in the world you've heard it being used. and use of hookey walker and related phrases, which extended to expressions such as 'that's a walker' and 'that's all hookey walker' used in the early 1900s. The first use of the word dope/doping for athletic performance was bacronym Brewer's 1870 dictionary of - a common myth is that the rhyme derives from an ancient number system - usually Anglo-Saxon Usage seems most common in Southern US. inclusion spoiling something potentially good. a. 'Black Irish' is believed by many to refer to (and to have originated from) descendents of relationships between surviving shipwrecked and fleeing Spanish sailors, who, attempting to return to Spain after the Spanish Armada failed to invade England,
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