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Bring Home the Bacon

Bring Home the Bacon

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.

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Neither Rhyme nor Reason

When the English tongue we speak.
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me why it's true
We say sew but likewise few?
And the maker of the verse,
Cannot rhyme his ...

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Absurdities of English Spelling

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?
Well done! And now you wish, per...

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Why English is Hard to Learn

We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse...

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Heated Worms and Delicious Bodies

Heated Worms and Delicious BodiesA certain English-language paper had me in stitches a few days back when it gave a literal translation of an Indonesian expression in one of its front-page stories. The s...
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Women and Words

Women and WordsNINE WORDS WOMEN USE

(1) Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

(2) Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this ...
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150 Fakta Unik

1. Dari seluruh kata dalam bahasa Inggris, kata 'set' punya definisipaling banyak.
2. Rata-rata tiap orang ketawa 10 kali sehari.
3. Mata burung Onta lebih besar dari otakn...

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Indo-Malay Confusion

Indo-Malay Confusion

So near and yet so far. Indonesia and Malaysia are close neighbours. We share the same roots, similar cultures, traditions and have the same linguistic origins. And ye...

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Cut Connection

Sri bermaksud memutuskan hubungan dengan kekasihnya Robbie (bule Amerika).

Tapi dia tak sanggup untuk bertemu muka, lalu dia memutuskan menulis surat.

Hi, my motive write t...

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