#622037 - 09/09/05 02:50 AM
Re: Origins of sayings
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Registered: 14/07/05
Loc: Sihanoukville, cambodia
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brilliant thread!!!!!!!!  i love these sorts of things!!! cant think of any sayings but i know the word posh comes from many years ago when people used to travel by boat. the more financially endowed people obviously got the best accomadation on board which was the prt side on the way there, and the starboard side on the return journey... Port Out Starboard Home.....POSH!
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#622038 - 09/09/05 02:59 AM
Re: Origins of sayings
[Re: maus]
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110% MONKEY EVERY TIME ALL THE TIME JUST CANT STOP THE MONKEY
Registered: 11/10/02
Loc: London
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About being sent to Coventry: i heard that it doesn't derive from Coventry the place, but from the Covin-tree from which Coventry took it's name. The Covin-tree was an oak which stood in front of the castle in feudal times. The tree was used as the gallows and those to be executed were sent to the covin-tree. Probably a load of rubbish though 
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#622039 - 09/09/05 03:15 AM
Re: Origins of sayings
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co-director of A.C.B.I.S.H.A.
Registered: 19/07/04
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"he let the cat out of the bag" in medieval times, naughty salesmen would sell a cat (which was quite cheap and easy to come by) and claim it was a pig(ALOT more expensive). someone who revealed the salesman's lie would 'let the cat out of the bag'... .. not alot of people know that. interesting stuff, nice start skully 
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#622041 - 09/09/05 04:06 AM
Re: Origins of sayings
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co-director of A.C.B.I.S.H.A.
Registered: 19/07/04
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might be a tad  but anyways, when was the *why did the chicken cross the road* gag first used??
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#622042 - 09/09/05 05:28 AM
Re: Origins of sayings
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Registered: 27/08/02
Loc: Warwickshire
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As far as I know, the saying being sent to coventry originates from the british civil war, when they used a large church in coventry as a military prison. Being sent to Coventry just meant being sent to jail.
There's page here about it
I live on the same street of said church (St Johns) and can see it from my balcony 
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#622043 - 09/09/05 06:25 AM
Re: Origins of sayings
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old hand
Registered: 01/03/03
Loc: Chester, UK
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It was more than that. Because the civilians of the town were a different side to the prisioners (Roundheads and Cavaliers). Therefore when they were sent to the prision they locals would refuse to communicate with the prisioners - hence being "Sent to Coventry"
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#622045 - 09/09/05 08:19 AM
Re: Origins of sayings
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Registered: 23/07/05
Loc: Near to Yeovil, In Somerset
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not sure about i'll be blowed but "blimey" comes from "Blind me"... why you'd want to be blinded i don't know but...
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#622048 - 09/09/05 09:07 AM
Re: Origins of sayings
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Insert Champagne Here
Registered: 21/07/03
Loc: without class distinction
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and here i was thinking it was the Greeks...
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#622049 - 09/09/05 09:16 AM
Re: Origins of sayings
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HOP Mad Doctor
Registered: 28/05/01
Loc: San Francisco, CA, USA
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It was actually the Sumerians. *insert Monty Python soundtrack here*
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#622050 - 09/09/05 09:16 AM
Re: Origins of sayings
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old hand
Registered: 27/01/01
Loc: Nottingham UK
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My Nan had a saying for everything. One of her sayings was 'if it rains on the day of your funeral it means you were a good person' and it was raining cats and dogs on her funeral.
'Raining Cats and Dogs' now where does that come from?
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#622052 - 09/09/05 10:48 AM
Re: Origins of sayings
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Registered: 02/03/05
Loc: UK
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on the theme of flying animals
why isnt "not enough room to swing a cat"?
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#622055 - 09/09/05 06:20 PM
Re: Origins of sayings
[Re: [noodles]]
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UnNatural Scientist - Currently working on a Breville-legged monkey
Registered: 26/05/04
Loc: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK
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Swing a cat. Cat is short for cat-o-nine-tails, throughly unpleasent hooked whip thing. I think the having no room had something to do with slave ships.
Carrots. Vitamin A will help with night vision but not really all that much when you've got a decent diet. The see in the dark thing was from propoganda during WWII. Allied pilots had an uncanny ability to hit targets in the dark, to make people grow/eat their own vegitables there were propoganda posters around crediting it to carrots. It was actually because they had newly invert radar in teh nosecones of the planes.
Different kettle of fish. I have a feeling that kettle is an old word for bucket, anyone got any light on this?
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