“Son of a Gun & Steal My Thunder” and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions

We continue with our American stories. The story of the English language is itself something we cover and we been doing it with a remarkable author Andrew Thompson was written a terrific book care of the dog paint the town red. Curious origins of everyday sayings and fun phrases years and some more stories about phrases.

We all know but don't know why we use so down the river means to be betrayed or cheated or mislaid draws from the times of slavery in America in the early 19th century, when the slave tribes in full swing multistate on his know the Mississippi would handpick the base lives to live and work on the properties, the slicer in close contact with the families and lived in relatively speaking, comfortable situation are often treated well and sometimes in his respected members of the family, but any slave he calls trouble was considered unsuitable for the landowner's family were put on a boat and sold down the river to the slave plantations below Mississippi they the condition so much Tosha and life was cheap, so the slave was sold down the river son of a gun is usually said to someone in a friendly way so young routed you son of a gun and she had another nautical fries century to guide the British Navy allowed women to join silos on long voyages and leave on the ships. Sometimes the women will pop as of silos and sometimes our prostitutes pregnancies were common in most babies were born in a designated area on the ship's gum. Many pregnancies are unplanned and a lot of instances the child's paternity was unknown and in such cases the child was listed in the ships log as I son of a gun. Sample gripes means to act in jealous why after disappointment. It's one of a number of expressions attributed to ice up the ancient Greek writer in his fable, the folks in the gripes hungry folk season brought gripes hanging from a trestle von use old beast coming to get them, but these unsuccessful knowing that he might go to get the gripes the imputed folks is the he didn't really want them anyway declaring the gripes of sow and not rugs are fooled spick-and-span means fresh and unused will meet and clean and its expression originated in the 16th century shipyards.

The two words are now obsolete.

But at that time speak was a spike or Nile span was a wooden shaving chip when the ship was brand-new and first launching its Niles would be Shawnee and rust free and they would be the old bit of wood shaving on the deck so still considered spick-and-span to spill the beans means to confess will divulge the secret and it has its origins in ancient Greece when election was conducted for new member to enter a secret process audio private club, the existing members would vote, though given a white or brown being in each member could play Sunday wanting the job. The cost is five a white being meant yes the brown being meant no Navy apart from the vote count is new. How many of each word in each job so the new member would never know just how popular or unpopular he walls unless the job was knocked out of him. In that case the beans would spill the votes would be divulged. The expression spin Dr. Ming similar gives a twisted and favorable version of events and only a political press I gentle publicist and began with American politics. Won't the woods in the been used since the early 1800s to mean telling a story. It wasn't until the 1990s when the expression began promptly when Ronald Reagan described the public relations officer to a strategic Defense initiative is being home spin control providing favorable version of events to the media. The phrase soon changed to spin Dr. and it went from there, the expression spitting image means an exact likeness and it's actually a corruption of the expression's beaten image.

The same began with the idea of someone being folded from the speak of another.

So great is the similarity between them. It was as I wanted been spat out of the others mouth. The phrase began in the 1600s and had developed a spitting image by the early 20th century, a square meal is a nutritious meal and into nautical fries from the British warships of the 17th century by have poor living conditions.

The courts were cramped and most meals were in substantial. In particular, breakfast and lunch usually consist of little more than brick-and-mortar. However, the final meal of the day did provide some sustenance and usually included some form of meat.

It was this meal was served a large square tray made of board design did not shy for easy storage dislodge a more nutritious serving became known as a square meal to start from scratch means to start again from the beginning and originated from the sport of horse racing the Middle Ages at that time alarm was mocked or scratched in the ground are sold in the jockeys began the rice behind the mock if was found that any of them weren't following the course that was sent out. They would have to go back and start again from scratch disgraced in food prices with handicaps what we competitors were given had stops while contestant who started from scratch in the ground was given no advantage. The expression was then adopted into the golfing well with swing from scratch. If someone steals your fund that taking credit for something that you did not expression began in the theater in the 1700s with a playwright named Joan Dennis he produced a play at the Drury Ln., Theatre in London and for the show. He invented a novel method for crating the sound effective fund eat large team sheets together backstage buddies play flopped and was replaced by Macbeth when that production used his technique for simulating Fonda.

Dennis was enraged and was reported to said how these rascals use me I will not have my play, and yet I steal my thunder to be stone break means having no money at old not expression stems of medieval England way. Your inability to pay your debts was considered a caudal scene was the reason for many suicides, skilled tradesmen filed repay their debts. The tools would be repossessed in this stunning workbench is broken into pieces. This meant I were unable to work are also sometimes sentenced to hard labor in prison without falls to break up stones and rocks being Stein bright light. He became associated with anyone who had my money. The straight and narrow remains proper conduct and moral integrity, not price comes from the Bible was fully straight and narrow straight meeting.

Narrow confiding is in a straitjacket.

The book of Matthew reads old is the way that is the path of destruction, but strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leads us to the house of God describes the why and the guy to have as being narrow, meaning that one must tread carefully in order to make it there and into heaven to take a rain check means to decline an invitation, but leave the option to take up another time it began in the world bicycle in America or in the late 1970s, the attendance of bicycle games at the time during winter months was low, but the fans did not want to shell out and pay for full price of the ticket. Even as I love the guy to stop this, the games administrators began the practice of allowing fans to leave because of bad weather up to a certain point in the match and reuse the ticket on another die.

Despite the fast in full for the fair and got to watch an entire game was known was taking a rain check and the concert was actually formalized in 1990, and the Constitution of the National League to take someone for rawhide means to cheat or deceive them, and originated during the year of probation in America during the 1920s criminality was high with gangs dealing in bootlegging about illegal activities, competition for market share was strong in gang warfare was rife any rival gang member who displeased another chief would calmly be invited by henchmen to go for rawhide. The RD was the member drive a car to a secluded place, but I could told my desire and resolve differences. But this was usually just a cover and the victim rarely returned and what a delight. Great job on the production by Greg Hagler and by the way, you can hear Andrew Thompson time and time again we've done a whole series of them practically his old book or website owner construes.com search for entrance work and you can hear it all we've done so many good reasons like this. The book care of the dog to paint the town red. The curious origins every day saying and fun phrases.

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