Below are some fun facts and stories about the origins of some well-known English phrases:

There is  an old Hotel/Pub in Marble Arch, London , which  used to have a gallows adjacent to it. Prisoners  were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial of  course) to be hanged.  The horse-drawn dray, carting the  prisoner, was accompanied by an armed guard, who  would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the  prisoner if he would like ''ONE LAST DRINK''.  If he said  YES, it was referred to as ONE FOR THE ROAD.

If he  declined, that prisoner was ON THE WAGON.

So there  you go.. More bleeding history.

They used  to use urine to tan animal skins, so families  used to all pee in a pot and then once a day it  was taken and sold to the tannery. If you had to  do this to survive you were "piss poor", but  worse than that were the really poor folk, who  couldn't even afford to buy a pot, they "Didn't  have a pot to piss in" and were the lowest of  the low.

The next  time you are washing your hands and complain  because the water temperature isn't just how you  like it, think about how things used to  be.

Here are  some facts about the 1500s:

Most  people got married in June, because they took  their yearly bath in May and they still smelled  pretty good by June. However, since they were  starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of  flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom  today of carrying a bouquet when getting  married.