Website review: origins of words and phrases
AshleyD11389 discovered this in Writing
•83 reviews since Feb 11, 2008
writing, language, quotes
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ryl-L rated 4 months ago- Site explaining where most of the queer phrases we use today come from. (:
- randumbum rated 4 months ago
- I've often thought that the expression "toodaloo" -as in goodbye or I'll see you later- comes from the French tout à l'heure. But this is only my own conjecture I have no etymology to fall back on.
- mertseymenrenkme rated 4 months ago
- thank god, now i know why it rains cats and dogs!
- grassgod2007 rated 4 months ago
- pretty common phrases but the origin of phrases is always interesting. I am an etymologist all the way
- Zaburi rated 4 months ago
- From the page: "rule of thumb -No, this phrase is definitely NOT "P.C"! Who knew? "Rule of thumb" derived from the days when woman were sometimes beaten with a switch. To be "kind" the switch could not be thicker than a thumb's width. This was made law in 1782 when an English judge stated that men were allowed to beat their wives but that the stick could not be thicker than one's thumb."
- lemonzez rated 4 months ago
- Rule of thumb one.
- TheeMitch rated 4 months ago
- The origins of words and phrases. This information always comes in handy for a pub quiz
- JohnStays44 rated 4 months ago
- good to know
- Laboo63 rated 4 months ago
- Dang this is interesting
