Idioms
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- ''Abandon all hope''-first published in Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy''
- ''Back to square one''- Although the origin's unknown, theories include: BBC soccer announcements, Snakes and Ladders, and Hopscotch
- ''Dog days''-hottest days between July and August
- ''Egg on''- ''Egg'' ironically started out as an alternative spelling of ''edge'', deriving from the Norse ''eddja''.
- ''Get medieval''- eXTReME violence
- ''Harvest moon''- Fall Equinox, when day and night are equal when the earth's equator directly aligns with the sun.
- ''Caesar salad''- Mediterranean dish consisting of cos lettuce, croutons,anchovies, lemon juice, olive oil, and parmesan. However, despite the name and Mediterranean ingredients, it didn't origin in the Mediterranean nor it was named after Julius Caesar.
- ''Jerry built''- The origin's unknown, yet may have come Jericho.
- ''Face the music''- Although the true origin's unknown, it's theorized to come from drumbeats as military officiers were discharged.
- ''Magical realism''- 1920s article about a German art exhibit
- ''In the red''- Both private individuals and business owners utilize red pens or markers to circle or write debts and finacial losses in ledgers.
- ''Paint the town red''-believed to come from an English nobleman painting buildings red
- ''Lie low''- printed in Shakespeare's 1599 ''Much Ado About Nothing''
- ''Kangaroo court''- The origin's unknown, yet it may have been inspired by claims during the California Gold Rush.
- ''Off the record''- first printed in a November 1932 North Carolina newspaper about an event President Franklin Roosevelt attended
- ''Nation of shopkeepers''- critism of England from Scotland and France
- ''Read the riot act''-In 1715 England local magistrates would arrest crowds of twelve or more people if they didn't disperse within an hour after the announcement was made.
- ''Quick and the dead''- Although the term ''quick'' is often used in action movies and westerns, originally it meant ''alive'', rather than ''fast''.
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