Phrase of the Week – ‘Hands Down’ “This is hands down the best cheese I’ve ever eaten.” This oddly specific example of the phrase shows its use as a term to describe something that is ‘without question’. The origin of ‘hands down’ comes from 19th century horseracing! When a horse and jockey are coming to the […]
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Phrase of the Week – ‘Bite the Bullet’ Peeling a band aid off in one move. Jumping in freezing cold water. Telling your loved one you actually don’t like the food you’ve been pretending to like this whole time. All of these situations call for ‘biting the bullet’. There’s some speculation as to this phrase’s exact
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Phrase of the Week – ‘Butter Someone Up’ Come on, we’ve all done it. You’re a kid and you want something, so you tell your parents you love them and that they’re the ‘bestest parents ever’. You know there’s a job opening or promotion at work, so you start buying coffees and lunch for your boss, appearing enthralled with
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Phrase of The Week – ‘Play It By Ear’ This week, we delve into the origins of the phrase ‘play it by ear’. The nature of the phrase has somewhat changed over the last 500 years, since its first appearance in the 16th century idiom vocabulary. Its origin belongs to the music world, where ‘playing something
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Phrase of The Week Welcome to ‘phrase of the week’, where we look at the origins of phrases and how some of them, after hundreds of years, still have a common place in our vocabularies. Quite befitting the potential Sunday headache some people may be sporting, today we look at the origin of the phrase ‘hair of
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