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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
2 weeks ago

little house on the praire

What we'll know phrases do you know the origin off.

Two I will start with "Face your consequences In Roman times if a sl**etried to escape they where branded on their face, later on other parts of the body Hence face your consequences.

Another one is old your tongue. Again roman, if someone in authority didn't like what you said they would either cut your tongue out or pull it right out so if you didn't want to lose it hold your tongue

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By *eoBloomsMan
2 weeks ago

Springfield

Damn those Romans were brutal ! I guess that's where being thrown to the lions also comes from.

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
2 weeks ago

little house on the praire


"Damn those Romans were brutal ! I guess that's where being thrown to the lions also comes from."
very good

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By *eoBloomsMan
2 weeks ago

Springfield

Kick the bucket - before slaughter pigs were tied to a beam also known then as a bucket. As they died they kicked out.

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By *enrietteandSamCouple
2 weeks ago

Oxfordshire

“Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.”

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By *avie65Man
2 weeks ago

In the west.


"Damn those Romans were brutal ! I guess that's where being thrown to the lions also comes from."

As does decimate, where every 10th man in legion was killed for failure or mutiny.

Crossing the rubicorn stems from the legions laying down their weapons, at the Rubicorn, on their way back to Rome.

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
2 weeks ago

little house on the praire

Haven't got a bucket to piss in. People used to pee in a bucket unless they where really poor hadn't got a bucket

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By *eoBloomsMan
2 weeks ago

Springfield

A lot of British expressions come from the navy where so many people used to serve. Learn the ropes for example.

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
2 weeks ago

Reading

Sweet FA refers to a murder victim Fanny Adams

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By *oxychicWoman
2 weeks ago

Nottinghamshire

" cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey"

No, it's not as coarse and rude as it might appear! This very common description of the British winter weather actually comes from the times when the Navy fought with cannons.

To prevent the cannon balls from rolling around the ship, they were welded to a small stable upright called a brass monkey.

In the bitter cold, the weld could snap and let the balls loose!

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
2 weeks ago

little house on the praire


"A lot of British expressions come from the navy where so many people used to serve. Learn the ropes for example."
Yes lots do and off the top of my head the only two I cam think of is POSH. Port out starboard home cause that kept the sun away from you.

SHIT refers to bags of wheat, corn etc where they needed to be stored of the ground so they where printed withSHIT store high in transit

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
2 weeks ago

little house on the praire

Amymore

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By *ealMissShadyWoman
2 weeks ago

St Albans/ North Welsh Borders

Raining cats and dogs - Animals used to sleep in the roofs of thatched houses. When it rained the roof collapsed

Over the threshold - People used to use straw called thresh which they would lay at the entrance to the house

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By *avie65Man
2 weeks ago

In the west.

In Scotland if someone is d*unk we say they are steaming. This comes about because you could only get a drink on a Sunday if you wear a bonified traveller and people sailed down the Clyde to other towns by steamship, probably a paddle steamer.

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By *ealMissShadyWoman
2 weeks ago

St Albans/ North Welsh Borders

Saved by the bell

They used to bury bodies with a string in the corpse's hand, the string was attached to a bell so if the dead woke up they could pull the string to alert those above ground

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
2 weeks ago

little house on the praire

FUCK

Fornication under consent of the king. In the days of the peasants they had to get permission from the landowners to have sex or the landowners had sex with them first can't remember

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By *idssissyTV/TS
2 weeks ago

Nr cricket ground birm

Mind your p's and q's

In old England ale was sold in pints and quarts. If customers got rowdy they were told to mind their pints and quarts, ie settle down

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
2 weeks ago

little house on the praire

I find these all very interesting, I've learnt something new

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By *amantha_JadeWoman
2 weeks ago

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Families used to share one lot of bath water - the father or any other men in the house went first, followed by women/girls and the baby would be last. The water would often be so dirty by that point, hence the expression ‘don’t throw the baby out with the bath water’

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By *eoBloomsMan
2 weeks ago

Springfield

Theatres used to have sloped stages with the highest point at the back, so actors would go there to be more prominent, leading to the expression 'upstage' meaning to take attention away from someone else.

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
2 weeks ago

little house on the praire

Does anyone know the saying don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I know it's to do with a horses teeth

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By *ovelyDayXXXWoman
2 weeks ago

Niche


"Does anyone know the saying don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I know it's to do with a horses teeth "

Well I know they check horses teeth as sign of health before buying so perhaps it's rude to openly size up the health/ worth of a gift?

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
2 weeks ago

little house on the praire


"Does anyone know the saying don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I know it's to do with a horses teeth

Well I know they check horses teeth as sign of health before buying so perhaps it's rude to openly size up the health/ worth of a gift?"
Yes that's it. Thankyou

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By *lue collar bi guyMan
2 weeks ago

the shire

The term shot as in a shot of whisky comes from the old prospecting days in the USA. A glass of whisky cost the same as a shotgun cartridge. The prospectors and cowboys would come in and exchange a shotgun shell for a whisky. Hence the term shot of whisky.

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By *ovelyDayXXXWoman
2 weeks ago

Niche


"Does anyone know the saying don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I know it's to do with a horses teeth

Well I know they check horses teeth as sign of health before buying so perhaps it's rude to openly size up the health/ worth of a gift?Yes that's it. Thankyou"

Welcome xx

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By *cottish guy 555Man
2 weeks ago

London

Getting the sack comes from workmen being no longer required and given their tool bag to pack up and fuck off.

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