@PAMsLOvE
I want you to know I'm being 100% serious.
This is one of the most interesting posts I've read on this platform, ever.
Great job!
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@OIIIEGA
@PAMsLOvE
I concur. Some expressions we all use, but I had no idea where they came from. There was a pretty great book that I read in the 80s? I think it was called extraordinary origins of every day things? Donβt remember, but a lot of similar facts there.
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@mmstratus
@PAMsLOvE
I'm ashamed to say I only knew the origin of two of these.
Threshold and the reason for the flowers.
The rest I had no clue!
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Sigh.
An account with half a million followers just tweeted that long debunked 'life in the 1500s' nonsense, 2.2 million people have seen it.
So here we go again...
These phrases are much more recent:
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@OIIIEGA
@PAMsLOvE
This is almost certainly a false etymology.
The phrases βpiss-poorβ and βdidnβt have a pot to piss inβ first appear in print in the 1930s, and there is no evidence to suggest they have an earlier, oral origin.
Many researchers have noted this, among them:β¦
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@OIIIEGA
@PAMsLOvE
I totally agree! I couldnβt stop reading, I wanted to know what the next saying was going to be. Really loved this! Thank you for posting!
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@OIIIEGA
@PAMsLOvE
Itβs great right? Kinda what I wished Twitter would have been. A sharing of knowledge
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@OIIIEGA
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There are some lovely folktales here, that tell us about how people thought about the past, but unfortunately most of them aren't true. Bridal bouquets date back to ancient Rome where flowers and herbs were carried as a fertility symbol. Threshold is an update of the old...
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