a hypothesis as to the origin of ‘to rain cats and dogs’
an alternative explanation of the phrase “it is raining cats and dogs”
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meaning and origin of the phrase ‘strawberry preacher’
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In the phrase ‘in Dicky’s meadow’, which means ‘in trouble’, the first element is an alteration of ‘dicky’, meaning ‘hazardous’, ‘critical’.
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Sexual puns in 17th-century English theatre explain several meanings of ‘P’s and Q’s’.
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