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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Ever wanted to know where sayings come from?
I know you lot are an intelligent bunch If not I've wasted best part of 5 mins posting this 
For Eg When the cart were on there way to the executions they used to stop at the Inn, where some would get off hence the saying "Off The Wagon" they would have one last drink before being excuted and another saying "One for the Road"
Anyone got some more?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Shotgun"
Obvious one that most know, but in horse and carts, the passenger in the passenger seat used to have to hold the shotgun. Hence the shotgun seat. |
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Back in the day the beer pots were wooden and shared. To make sure every one drank equal amounts there were groves scored in the sides in which plugs were inserted. These were know as pegs simular to cribbage board.
If someone was worse for wear the instruction was
"Bring them down a peg or two"
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By (user no longer on site)
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Westminster Abbey was originally called St Peters church. When St Pauls was being built they struggled financially do had to take money from the collections and the like from St Peters in order to complete the building. Hence robbing Peter to pay Paul! |
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush
Basically if you're fingering a girl out in the open don't give her up for the chance of a threesome with the 2 voyeur women doggers that are hiding in a bush watching you |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Not worth a light, comes from down the mines a young boy would have a job basically holding a door open it was a worthless job and the had to sit in the dark, hence they weren't worth a light meaning your worthless
Mind your p's and q's
Beer used to be sold in in pints and quarts if a fight kicked off people would shout mind your p's and q's so you wouldn't spill your beer |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
My favourite about it being cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey (that was supposedly a naval thing going back to when cannonballs were stored in a ring called a brass monkey) was disproved thanks to a similar thread here a while back....there are various apparent actual origins including something to do with brass statues of the three wise monkeys being errrrrr ball-less...and one about boys used to load cannons on board ship being known as powder monkeys (which may explain the false cannonball theory) |
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"Not worth a light, comes from down the mines a young boy would have a job basically holding a door open it was a worthless job and the had to sit in the dark, hence they weren't worth a light meaning your worthless
Mind your p's and q's
Beer used to be sold in in pints and quarts if a fight kicked off people would shout mind your p's and q's so you wouldn't spill your beer"
nothing to do with drink but printing |
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Napoleonic wars gun powder was restricted and had to be made from various materials sulphur being one of them.
This was made from drying urine
Large cities made by laws that pissing in the street was illegal and you had to piss in collection points. These collection points where then barreled and taken to a common point for distilling to get the sulphur (scotland). This was done by ship hence the saying taking the piss!  |
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"Ship shape and bristol fashion"
Over 200 years old and before bristol had a floating harbour, ships used to keel over during a low tide and the cargo would go to one side and apparently only in Bristol.
"Has the cat got your tongue"
Dates back to when tongues used to be cut out of blasphemous mouths and fed to cats
"He/she went the whole 9 yards"
World War II Fighter pilots received a 9-yard chain of ammunition. Therefore, when a pilot used all of his ammunition on one target, he gave it “the whole 9 yards.”
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