Website review: origins of words and phrases
AshleyD11389 discovered this in Writing
•84 reviews since Feb 11, 2008
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- EmokittyRI rated 5 months ago
- I'm pretty sure none of this is true...
NovaNardis rated 5 months ago- I'm pretty sure these are all fake.
- eightbithero rated 5 months ago
- I don't trust any site that spells "dilemma" d-e-l-e-m-a.
- Kaeljia rated 5 months ago
- Ever wonder where certain phrases originated? Such as: don't throw the baby out with the bath water - What's one to do when they only have one basin of bath water and a litter of children to be bathed? Easy! Use the same bath water and dump it out when your last child gets lost in it! Back in the pre-running water days, the order of the household determined which family member got to take the bath first. The man (or head of the household) naturally went first, followed by the children and the baby last. The water would become so dirty that when a baby was bathed in it, he could possibly be lost or even tossed out! Of course, one would hope that the parents would have enough common sense to check first!
- abyss908 rated 5 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."
- magicvw rated 5 months ago
- Actually the one about toast is incomplete. It goes right back to when before a meal people would thank God for their food and would perform a kind of mini-Communion- they put some toast in a chalice because it symbolises Jesus' flesh, and the wine of course was his blood.
- step40 rated 5 months ago
- 'Take it with a grain of salt', but interesting interpretations none the less.
- arleas rated 5 months ago
- So much of this is just wrong. Check snopes for some of it... i'm too tired to even bother giving this a thumb down.
- Rachelle rated 5 months ago
- Wondering where things originated from? Check out this site!
