The most common origin that people associate with this term is this: Samuel Mudd was a physician who practiced medicine in Charles County, Maryland during the Civil War. He was awakened by two men at 4 a.m. on the morning of April 15, 1865. Dr. Mudd did not realize that the patient with a broken leg was the well-known actor, John Wilkes Booth; had no idea Booth had suffered the injury at Ford’s Theatre while jumping onto the stage after sending a bullet crashing into the skull.. || Continue Reading →

Idioms: An idiom is a phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words. You always come across little odd sayings that we all know what they mean, but many wonder how we got them. This is my first entry in what I hope will become a long-standing series of entries. “Kicking The Bucket” Kick the bucket means to die. The idiom kicking the bucket comes from a particular technique of suicide long ago... || Continue Reading →