Idiom ｜ Christmas Came Early
‘Christmas came early’ is another idiom with hidden origins from the early to 20th century. The idiom is used when something …
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Idiom ｜ Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth dates back to a time when horses were a common gift, but the idiom is still widely used and means …
Idiom ｜ Hair of the Dog
Hair of the dog, short for hair of the dog that bit you originally referred to a method of treating rabies. Now it has a much different …
Idiom ｜ Lipstick on a Pig
The idiom “lipstick on a pig” has been around for centuries, though in much different forms. Evolving in the 20th century, it means …
Idiom ｜ Head In The Clouds
The idiom to ‘have one’s head in the clouds’ dates all the way back to the mid-1600s. The phrase means that someone is …
Idiom ｜ A Blaze Of Glory
The idiom to ‘go down in a blaze of glory’ most likely dates from the early 1600s. The idiom means a short but impressive …
Idiom ｜ Go Down In Flames
The idiom to ‘go down in flames’ most likely originated in the 1940s during WWII and means for someone or something to …
Idiom ｜ Go Apeshit
The idiom ‘to go apeshit’ evolved from an earlier phrase, ‘to go ape,’ which most likely originated on college campuses in the southwest United States. The idiom has two different meanings. It can mean …
Idiom ｜ Like a Broken Record
The idiom ‘to sound like a broken record’ is an interesting phrase because a few years ago many young people would not have understood what it means.
Idiom ｜ Age Like Milk
The idiom ‘to age like milk’ is an interesting idiom, mainly because it is the opposite of the older and more common idiom …