Where did the sayings Nosy Parker and Turn over a new leaf originate?

Question

plz answer 1 of them even if you can of the story of how they originated

Answer 1

The short answer is that nobody knows where it comes from, but that hardly seems like an adequate response. Some pointers, then.

The most usual origin suggested is the late (the very late) Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Elizabeth I in the sixteenth century. He was a reforming cleric, noted for sending out detailed enquiries and instructions relating to the conduct of his diocese. Like many reformers, he was regarded as a busybody.

However, the huge flaw in this suggestion is that the term nosey Parker isn’t recorded until 1907. The term nosey for someone inquisitive, figuratively always sticking their nose into other people’s affairs, is a little older, but even that only dates back to the 1880s. Before then, anyone called nosey was just somebody with a big nose, like the Duke of Wellington, who had the nickname Old Nosey.

One suggestion, put forward by Eric Partridge in his Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, was that the saying dates from the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Very large numbers of people attended the Exhibition, so there would have been lots of opportunities for peeping Toms and eavesdroppers in the grounds. The word parker has since medieval times been used for an official in charge of a park, a park-keeper; I’ve read that the term was used informally for the royal park-keepers who supervised Hyde Park at the time of the Great Exhibition. So the saying might conceivably have been applied to a nosey park-keeper. It would require the inquisitive sense of nosey to have originated about 30 years before it is first recorded — not impossible.

Another idea, put forward in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, is that the phrase nosey Parker was originally nose-poker. Poker, in the sense of somebody who pries into another’s affairs, certainly has a long history, well pre-dating the nineteenth century appearance of nosey Parker. It’s not impossible that nose-poker became modified with the second element being converted into a proper name. Stranger things have happened. But evidence is suspiciously lacking: the Oxford English Dictionary has no record of nose-poker anywhere and I can’t find an example.

But all this is the purest supposition. The evidence isn’t on record, and the truth will probably never be found.

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When you decide to do something different to change your life for the better, you are turning over a new leaf. Example: "This year I've joined a gym and I am exercising every day. I'm turning over a new leaf."

Turning over a new leaf is like turning over a new page ("leaf") in your life and seeing what is on the other side. Example: "Wow. Look how polite your son has become." Reply: "Yes. We had a big talk with him, and he has really turned over a new leaf."

You turn over a new leaf when you commit to changing your life for the better. Example: "I'm turning over a new leaf: I've decided to quit smoking. "

Answer 2

To turn over a new leaf comes from England, when students used to write in pen and ink. It got pretty messy, and if they tried to correct work, it had to be done by scratching out the wrong word and writing the correct word above it. And if you did that a number of times, you had a very, very messy page. So turning over a new leaf mean turning the page (a single page in a book is called a leaf) and starting again. It gradually came to mean 'starting again' in fields other than school work.
Nosy Parker? Can't help you there. Probably refers to someone named Parker who was really nosy, but I don't have any references for you.

Answer 3

Turning Over a New Leaf

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0310/p18s01-hfgn.htm