Unique Word Origins: How Another 6 Popular English Idioms Came to Be

From ancient Rome to modern golf, these sayings run the gamut

Karen DeGroot Carter
Curiosity Never Killed the Writer
4 min readApr 12, 2021

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Single man golfing on pretty course while hawk flies in distance.
Image by Jan Alexander from Pixabay

In my first Unique Word Origins post, I described idioms as groups of words that are used as common expressions. While these expressions are generally understood by speakers of a certain language who have lived for some time in a certain culture…

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