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For example...did u know that 'saved by the bell' comes from the olden days when they thought some1 was dead(even tho now a days we'd realise they were in a coma or something) they would bury them..but they were actually still alive. Some of the ppl's coffins who werent actually dead have scratchings on them from where the ppl have tried to get out.
The rich people (because they could afford it) attatched a piece of string to the 'dead' persons finger that went up to the ground and if they woke up and werent dead they could ring it....there fore being 'saved by the bell'. They had ppl watching the graves for the bell to ring....which is also where 'the graveyard shift' comes from....

do you know anymore??

2006-07-04 03:06:17 · 6 answers · asked by josie_jo 1 in Education & Reference Trivia

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Brides carry flowers because they only took one bath a year. this was usually in may,june was a popular month for weddings because of this.anyway by june they were starting to smell again so they would carry flowers to mask the scent.

"bring home the bacon"-in the old days most people were very poor, so when they got bacon it was a delicacy, they would hang it up and show it off so people knew they could bring home the bacon.

"don't throw the baby out with the bath water"-as i said earlier people would only take one bath a year, the man of the house bathed first,then the sons,then the women,then the children. by the time they bathed the baby the water was pretty much pitch black with dirt, so alot of kids got lost in it.

christmas-it was actually a pegan holiday a long time ago,i don't know the name but here are some of the things that we got from it:the Lapps of modern-day Finland, and the Koyak tribes of the central Russian steppes, believed in the idea of a World Tree. The World Tree was seen as a kind of cosmic axis, onto which the planes of the universe are fixed. The roots of the World Tree stretch down into the underworld, its trunk is the "middle earth" of everyday existence, and its branches reach upwards into the heavenly realm.

The amanita muscaria mushrooms grow only under certain types of trees, mostly firs and evergreens. The mushroom caps are the fruit of the larger mycelium beneath the soil which exists in a symbiotic relationship with the roots of the tree. To ancient people, these mushrooms were literally "the fruit of the tree."

The North Star was also considered sacred, since all other stars in the sky revolved around its fixed point. They associated this "Pole Star" with the World Tree and the central axis of the universe. The top of the World Tree touched the North Star, and the spirit of the shaman would climb the metaphorical tree, thereby passing into the realm of the gods. This is the true meaning of the star on top of the modern Christmas tree, and also the reason that the super-shaman Santa makes his home at the North Pole.

Ancient peoples were amazed at how these magical mushrooms sprang from the earth without any visible seed. They considered this "virgin birth" to have been the result of the morning dew, which was seen as the semen of the deity. The silver tinsel we drape onto our modern Christmas tree represents this divine fluid.
the links at the bottom have more on both of these.

2006-07-04 20:00:12 · answer #1 · answered by Inu 2 · 1 0

I actually have got here upon maximum British human beings to be extremely well mannered and really relaxing. i'm an American, the son of a Scotsman, and if there became ever a human beings to dislike the Brits, it may both be a Scot or an Irishman. growing to be up, I spent a minimum of in some unspecified time sooner or later a week playing football with foreigners, because it became no longer a properly known interest back then. the ameliorations in our cultures clarify a lot of how we modify into conscious of them as such, yet once you get to carry close the persons, you'll locate they're extremely a relaxing loving bunch and make as a lot relaxing of themselves because the do others. that is pretty a lot a British comical cultural aspect. They make relaxing of each others' well known communities, a lot as we do, yet their variety of humor comes for the length of slightly "off" by our criteria. So, purely attempt to comprehend our cultural ameliorations are what makes us see them because the "severe and powerful, self-righteous assholes", (that and the actual incontrovertible reality that we beat them for our independence and many are nevertheless bitter about that.)

2016-11-30 06:42:47 · answer #2 · answered by kirchoff 3 · 0 0

The expression filthy rich or stinky rich.
In medieval times the rich where buried in the church in their family tomb. After their funeral there was a really bad smell in the church for a long time. So the common people started calling them like that.

2006-07-04 03:27:49 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0 0

The whole riding shotgun comes from when the stage coaches in the old west were travelling across the badlands, the coach driver always had someone next to him with a shotgun to fight any bandits,

2006-07-04 03:17:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

not really a saying but the Ring Around The Rosie song is about the Black Death plague

2006-07-04 03:10:11 · answer #5 · answered by Xo_TJ♥78 2 · 0 0

A stitch in time saves nine ...

Pretty obvious one would have thought ! ... ;-) ...

2006-07-04 04:26:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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