25 Truly SHOCKING Origins of Common Phrases

Typical white fat American, actually sad.

If you can't beat them. join them. Does it hold true?

Don’t put the cart before the horse

Rule of thumb also a myth.

Actually that's not true about bathing. It's a myth that's been going around for ages. People bathed more often than once a year.

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I’m sure someone said this on saved by the bell 🔔 it’s also where we get the expression dead ringer.

You're shirt sucks, dude.

COMMON PHRASES :

"BITE THE BULLET"
"BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER"
"BREAK THE ICE"
"BUTTER SOMEONE UP"
"CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE ? "
"CAUGHT RED-HANDED"
"DON'T THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATH WATER"
"EAT HUMBLE PIE"
"GIVE THE COLD SHOULDER"
"GO COLD TURKEY"
"GO THE WHOLE NINE YARDS"
"JAYWALKER"
"KICK THE BUCKET"
"LET YOUR HAIR DOWN"
"MORE THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A STICK AT"
"NO SPRING CHICKEN"
"PLEASED AS PUNCH"
"RUB THE WRONG WAY"
"RULE OF THUMB"
"RUN AMOK"
"SAVED BY THE BELL"
"SHOW YOUR TRUE COLORS"
"SLEEP TIGHT" (DON'T LET THE BEDBUGS BITE)
"SPILL THE BEANS"
"WAKING UP ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE BED"

OTHER SAYINGS:

"WRAPPED AROUND MY LITTLE FINGER'
"TOE THE LINE"
"BALLS TO THE WALL"
"I'VE GOT TWO LEFT FEET"
"THE DEVIL TO PAY"
"SPEAK OF THE DEVIL"
"RAINING CATS AND DOGS"
"KEEP IT UNDER YOUR HAT"
"MIND YOUR 'P'S ' AND 'Q'S ' "
"GET YOUR GOAT"
"COLD ENOUGH TO FREEZE THE BALLS OF A BRASS MONKEY"
"COLD AS A WELL DIGGER'S ASS "
"CROSS YOUR 'T'S ' AND DOT YOUR 'I' S' "
GOT YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW

love the last one: every pain is on my LEFT side !!!!

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I can think of one, and it's a rather old one.
On a razor's edge
Meaning: In a critical or dangerous predicament.
History: It was first used in the Iliad (850 B.C.) in the sentence, “To all it stands on a razor’s edge, either woeful ruin or life for the Achaeans.”

Kick the bucket might mean the same as he CROAKED! Wonder where that came from?

A candle impaled in the center, horizontally. Both ends of the wick would be lit at the same time. It gave a brighter light, but for a shorter time. " My candle's burning at both ends, it cannot last the night, but ' ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, it gives a lovely light" Dorothy Parker

Saved by the bell

Can't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
On any body of water that flows to the ocean unobstructed if a land based officer or sheriff can't touch you from the bank with a 10 foot pole you are out of their jurisdiction and become the problem of the Navy or Coast Guard

Punch and Judy shows were still a common form of children's entertainment when I was a child in the 1960s. IDK if they still exist or if they are now considered 'too violent'. Neither I nor anyone else I used to watch them with ever committed acts of violence/bullying as a result of watching one of these shows.
I never had children of my own, so IDK much about children's entertainment much beyond the end of my own childhood.

I know an alternative explanation for 'to kick the bucket'. In medieval times, when a person died, the body would be laid out in church prior to the funeral, and the holy water bucket was placed by their feet to allow relatives and friends of the deceased to sprinkle the body with holy water as they prayed for their soul. Therefore the holy water bucket became intimately associated with the feet of deceased persons - hence 'to kick the bucket'. Source - Catholic Trivia by Mark Elvers, also Old Catholic England by he same author.

Willy Nilly!

Save by the bell actually referred to Boxing and was where one boxer who might be on the backfoot would be saved by the ringing of the bell. The use of bells was very rarely used across the world and many believed the saying and this practice were interlinked but it's not true