Where did the phrase "I can feel it in my bones" originate from?

Question

Cause I was feeling cold last night in my apartment, and I said to myself: "Winter's coming. I can feel it in my bones."

Leadship: Can't help it. I was born and raised in a cold-climactic state. (Alaska and Vermont)

Rich: Athritis???

I'm not old yet! lol

I'm only 33!

Answer 1

Air pockets, such as sinuses, contain air that expands and contract due to air pressure, which often indicates the coming of weather. Arthritis can make you more sensitive to this. Thus, when the old coot in the Western says he feels something in his bones, it's because the weather's changing.

I don't have arthritis, but I do get headaches in bad weather.

Answer 2

An old man named John C Mcalister who lived in coventry in the mid 1800's he was a long time sufferer of arthritis and also a well-known writer at the time and when he was writing his comedic-biography he started it off with the winter nights we're so cold i could feel it in my bones as if i we're a skeleton.

Answer 3

I believed that it was derived from using the phrase you could feel it down to the essence of your being. That could be misunderstood or not fit into that small box we call communication. Like in the following.

I don't know why, but I could feel it in my bones that there was a man behind the door.

or

In my very essence, I could feel that there was a man hiding behind the door.

You might even try, "In my very being, I knew that there was a man behind the door."

Answer 4

Many people who have arthritis feel joint pain when it gets cold. A lot of old people with arthritis say "I can feel it in my bones" to describe their cold weather-induced ailment. So this saying is really true for them.

Answer 5

Probably someone long ago who was just as cold as you who truly felt the coldness deep in the heart of your bones.

Answer 6

We Arthritics can tell a change in the weather by the pain we get in our joints.

Answer 7

Thats an expression that I heard in a church hymn song, I forgot the name. lol! Stop thinking about winter.

Answer 8

A Graveyard- probably. A bunch of Corpses were probably "hangin' out" one Halloween- & one of them piped up, "Hey! There are Trick-or-Treaters coming, -I can feel it in my bones!" :)