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 * ORIGIN OF ‘INDIAN SUMMER’ AND FRENCH ‘L’ÉTÉ SAUVAGE’
   
   21st Jun 2016.Reading time 14 minutes.


 * NOTES ON ‘CHERNOBYL’: BIBLICAL PROPHECY | CULTURAL DISASTER
   
   31st Aug 2019.Reading time 15 minutes.
   


 * REFUTATION OF RECEIVED IDEAS ON THE ORIGIN OF ‘BIKINI’
   
   2nd Mar 2019.Reading time 36 minutes.
   


 * ‘TO TAKE THE MICKEY OUT OF SOMEONE’: MEANING AND ORIGIN
   
   27th Nov 2017.Reading time 22 minutes.
   


 * A LANCASHIRE PHRASE: ‘THE FULL MONTY’
   
   27th Aug 2017.Reading time 10 minutes.
   


 * ORIGIN OF ‘CASTLES IN SPAIN’ AND ‘CASTLES IN THE AIR’
   
   18th Jul 2017.Reading time 8 minutes.
   


 * A HYPOTHESIS AS TO THE ORIGIN OF ‘MAD AS A HATTER’
   
   20th May 2017.Reading time 13 minutes.
   


 * ORIGIN OF ‘QUIZ’ (“VIR BONUS EST QUIS?”)?
   
   12th May 2017.Reading time 26 minutes.
   


 * A HYPOTHESIS AS TO THE ORIGIN OF THE PHRASE ‘TO PAINT THE TOWN RED’
   
   26th Aug 2016.Reading time 25 minutes.
   


 * THE AUTHENTIC ORIGIN OF ‘TO RAIN CATS AND DOGS’
   
   23rd Jun 2016.Reading time 22 minutes.
   


 * ORIGIN OF ‘INDIAN SUMMER’ AND FRENCH ‘L’ÉTÉ SAUVAGE’
   
   21st Jun 2016.Reading time 14 minutes.
   


 * NOTES ON ‘CHERNOBYL’: BIBLICAL PROPHECY | CULTURAL DISASTER
   
   31st Aug 2019.Reading time 15 minutes.

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‘THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE’: MEANINGS AND EARLY OCCURRENCES

7th May 2024.Reading time 7 minutes.

a completely isolated, featureless or insignificant place—USA, 1848, as ‘to
knock [something or someone] into the middle of nowhere’ with reference to
annihilation

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‘GIVE SOMEONE AN INCH AND THEY’LL TAKE A MILE’: MEANING AND ORIGIN

6th May 2024.Reading time 9 minutes.

the slightest concession will be unscrupulously exploited—USA, 1837, in Ralph
Waldo Emerson’s diary—a later form of ‘give someone an inch and they’ll take an
ell’

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‘TO STICK OUT A MILE’: MEANING AND ORIGIN

4th May 2024.Reading time 11 minutes.

New Zealand, 1883, as ‘to stick out half a mile’—to be very prominent or
conspicuous

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‘ONE MIGHT HEAR A PIN DROP’ | ‘ONE CAN HEAR A PIN DROP’

3rd May 2024.Reading time 15 minutes.

‘one might hear a pin drop’ (UK, 1739): the silence and sense of expectation are
intense—‘one can hear a pin drop’ (UK, 1737): one has a keen sense of hearing

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‘DEIRDRE SPECTACLES’: MEANING AND ORIGIN

2nd May 2024.Reading time 12 minutes.


UK, 1981—a pair of spectacles with an oversized frame of a style that was
fashionable in the 1980s—refers to the spectacles worn by Deirdre Barlow, a
fictional character in the soap opera Coronation Street

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‘DILLBRAIN’: MEANING AND ORIGIN

30th Apr 2024.Reading time 10 minutes.

Australia, 1943—a foolish or silly person—from the synonymous noun ‘dill’
(1933), itself apparently a back-formation from the adjective ‘dilly’, meaning
‘foolish’, ‘silly’

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‘VIENNOISERIE’: MEANINGS AND ORIGIN

29th Apr 2024.Reading time 8 minutes.


France—1883: Viennese-style baked goods—1887: a bakery that makes and sells this
type of baked goods—those baked goods were introduced into France in 1839 by the
Austrian entrepreneur August Zang

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‘PROPHET OF DOOM’: MEANINGS AND ORIGIN

27th Apr 2024.Reading time 7 minutes.

UK, 1809—a person who predicts disaster, a doomsayer—also: a person who is
(especially unduly) pessimistic about the future

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‘TURISTA’: MEANING AND ORIGIN

26th Apr 2024.Reading time 8 minutes.

USA, 1956—diarrhoea suffered by travellers, originally and especially in
Mexico—borrowed from Spanish ‘turista’, translating as ‘tourist’

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‘SLANGUIST’: MEANINGS AND ORIGIN

24th Apr 2024.Reading time 15 minutes.

USA, 1871: a person who frequently uses or coins slang words and phrases—USA,
1926: a person who studies the use and historical development of slang—blend of
the nouns ‘slang’ and ‘linguist’

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