Blogs Posted Under Idioms

I know for a fact that I am right, but if not, I’ll be the first to eat crow.” Most likely, you have heard this idiom at one time or another. What does it mean? Well, maybe this will shed some light on it for you. The term in Wikipedia is defined as: “to display total humility, especially when shown to be wrong.” Makes sense. But, where did the quirky saying come from or originate? According to World Wide Words, The origin seems fairly obvious: the meat.. || Continue Reading →

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 →