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Can You Name the 100-Year-Old Word or Phrase From Its Definition?
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By: William J. Wright
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Language is alive! English is a constantly evolving entity. Idioms, aphorisms and phrases change as quickly as the culture that both shapes and is shaped by words. No doubt, our parents, grandparents and ancestors had colorful ways of saying things. They wove observation into metaphors like finely wrought tapestries of language, but the truth is we do exactly that today.
In the decades to come, our common phrases influenced by the present culture will seem just as quaint and archaic as the expressions of the past. Nevertheless, some expressions have staying power just as others quickly fade into history. Imparting wisdom or pithy observations about human nature, the old phrases you'll encounter in this quiz represent a cross-section of both history and cultures. Some of these you may still use yourself, others we expect will seem like the linguistic equivalents of the hula hoop or the coonskin cap.
Since it would cramp our style to drone on like a broken record, we'll stop beating around the bush and get down to brass tacks, which is to say this our challenge to all of you word sleuths and language historians. Can you complete these old phrases?
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