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    Where does the word ‘honeymoon’ come from? © Getty Images
    Medieval

    Where does the word ‘honeymoon’ come from?

    Why do we say
    Stuarts

    Why do we say “send someone to Coventry”?

    Why do we say ‘lock, stock and barrel’? © Getty Images
    19th Century

    Why do we say ‘lock, stock and barrel’?

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    When were the terms ‘World War I’ and ‘World War II’ coined? © Getty Images
    World War II

    When were the terms ‘World War I’ and ‘World War II’ coined?

    Why is Hartlepool Football Club called the ‘monkey hangers’? © Wikimedia Commons
    Georgians

    Why is Hartlepool Football Club called the ‘monkey hangers’?

    Why we say: ‘Peeping Tom’ © Getty Images
    Medieval

    Why we say: ‘Peeping Tom’

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    19th Century

    Why we say: ‘horse of a different colour’

    Why we say: ‘put a sock in it’ © Getty Images
    19th Century

    Why we say: ‘put a sock in it’

    Why we say: ‘it’s all gone pear-shaped’ © Getty Images
    World War II

    Why we say: ‘it’s all gone pear-shaped’

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    Who was the Grand Old Duke of York? © Getty Images
    Medieval

    Who was the Grand Old Duke of York?

    Why we say: ‘pleased as punch’
    Early Modern

    Why we say: ‘pleased as punch’

    Why we say: ‘a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush’ © Getty Images
    18th Century

    Why we say: ‘a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush’

    Why we say: ‘crocodile tears’ © Getty Images
    Ancient Egypt

    Why we say: ‘crocodile tears’

    Why we say: ‘throw down the gauntlet’
    Medieval

    Why we say: ‘throw down the gauntlet’

    Why we say: ‘with a pinch of salt’
    Ancient Rome

    Why we say: ‘with a pinch of salt’

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