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Sayings
Sayings
Stuarts
Why do we say “send someone to Coventry”?
19th Century
Why do we say ‘lock, stock and barrel’?
World War II
When were the terms ‘World War I’ and ‘World War II’ coined?
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Georgians
Why is Hartlepool Football Club called the ‘monkey hangers’?
19th Century
Why we say: ‘horse of a different colour’
19th Century
Why we say: ‘put a sock in it’
World War II
Why we say: ‘it’s all gone pear-shaped’
Medieval
Who was the Grand Old Duke of York?
Early Modern
Why we say: ‘pleased as punch’
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18th Century
Why we say: ‘a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush’
Q&A
Why we say: ‘shot across the bows’
Feature
Why we say: ‘Close but no cigar’
World War I
Why we say: ‘Tommy’
Feature
Why we say: ‘Cock and Bull story’
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Why we say: ‘I’ll read the Riot Act’
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