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We use thousands of words every day without giving them a second thought.
But if you were asked to explain some of our most common slang and ordinary phrases, you might be left feeling like the cat’s got your tongue.
For instance, that one sounds like a harmless nursery rhyme phrase. In reality, legend points back to the terrifying “cat o’ nine tails”(a brutal leather whip used for public floggings in the English Navy) that left paralyzed sailors completely speechless from the pain.
From Civil War battlefields to 1940s crime scenes, these everyday terms came from places way darker and stranger than you’d ever expect.
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