@curiousitygeek: Old Phrases We Still Use Today And Where They Originated From🤯😅 #history #historytime #phrases #oldfashioned #interestingfacts #interesting #historyfacts #factsyoudidntknow
The bite the bullet one is wrong. It came from old muskets. Having to bite the bullet before loading it.
2024-07-08 21:22:44
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sgt.awesome :
guess where my name came from
2024-07-08 21:43:40
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Chris :
the cold shoulder one is much older then that
2024-07-08 20:07:08
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baz :
hungover one is wrong
2024-07-09 22:53:22
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PJS :
People would watch public hangings and many got very drunk before, during and after and felt very sick suffering from a "hangover"...
2024-07-08 22:31:04
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Lady T :
this is so cool
2024-08-05 15:22:23
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user1837744874423 :
Also 'day light robbery' having to pay tax on windows for sunlight so people started to brick them up because they couldn't afford it
2024-07-09 21:16:32
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Max Robes :
I don't know if these are true, but it's interesting nonetheless
2024-07-10 11:49:13
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Sach :
I now don’t trust anything I hear or see online hahaha
2024-07-09 08:18:20
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clintbeastwood5 :
Sounds like Christian bale in his American accent narrating
2024-07-09 00:27:05
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Tracie 🐾 :
I don’t get the hangover
2024-07-09 16:36:54
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user3859465728931 :
I straight up don’t understand the rope one
2024-07-09 10:54:21
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✨Whatadoll✨ :
We still use the word Et cetera or Etc which is Latin and means so on and so forth .
2024-07-10 23:42:04
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Controll3dKaos :
A coworker of mine just asked today if I knew where the phrase “caught red handed” came from. Now I do. 😁
2024-07-09 04:09:22
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ebougie0 :
I don’t get the rope one…🤷🏽♀️
2024-07-10 07:08:47
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bob the fish 🐟 :
painkillers did exist in both WW1 and 2 however it was thought that soldiers should deal with the pain can't remember the exact reasoning behind why they thought that but I learnt in history (1)
2024-09-21 07:08:15
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Macturn2 :
“That’s cray cray”
2024-07-08 22:00:40
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Plumbarias :
I dont get the rope one.
2024-07-09 15:44:33
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⛓️🖤🖕🏼𝔈𝔪𝔰𝔞𝔫🧸🎀✨ :
OMG I GOT SILVERSPOONS (from idk who?) AS A KID BUT HEEELL NO WAS I ”born with a silverspoon in my mouth” lol my upbringing was notttt easy
2024-08-04 14:33:10
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ᰔღ :
I love stuff like this. Spitting image started out as spirit and image, he’s the spirit and image of his dad. The pronunciation got lost.
2024-07-10 22:28:34
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TimeCat83 :
My favourite is the origin of flipping your both your index and ring fingers at someone you dislike.
2024-07-08 19:53:40
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