Meaning
A curse on both sides of any argument given out in frustration.
Origin
It is believed to be originated from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, 1594:
MERCUTIO:
I am hurt.
A plague o’ both your houses! I am sped.
Is he gone, and hath nothing?
The houses are those of the feuding Montague and Capulet families, which caused Juliet so much grief and was the source of her ‘O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo’ speech.
Meaning
When someone is absent without permission we use this phrase.
Origin
It is believed to be originated in Military. Viscount Horatio Nelson, in Dispatches and Letters, 1797:
“Five or six men absent without leave, who can not be ‘Run’ on the Ship’s books, not having been absent three musters.”
Meaning
This phrase is used for Nonsense or rubbish.
Origin
A Classic of Cockney rhyming slang
Meaning
This is used when we have to say that I like talking to you
Origin
Its first reference was found in Thomas Hood’s romantic poem Bianca’s Dream in 1827:
This, with more tender logic of the kind,
He pour’d into her small and shell-like ear,
That timidly against his lips inclin’d;
Meanwhile her eyes glanced on the silver sphere
That even now began to steal behind
A dewy vapour, which was lingering near,
Wherein the dull moon crept all dim and pale,
Just like a virgin putting on the veil:-
Meaning
It refers to a stimulus. Mostly used as a slang for injection
Origin
The Wisconsin newspaper The Capital Times in 1920 used it for the first time as:
“California is a 2 to 1 favorite out there on press dope. A shot in the arm please. Dope is right. Now I hear the little birdies singing.”
Meaning
This phrase is used to lay stress on the importance of being organized and keeping all things in place after use. Also it means everything should be placed properly in place before and after its usage.
Origin
The Ohio Repository, Canton, Ohio, December 1827 used this phrase in ‘Neatness’, by Reverend C. A. Goodrich:
“There is as much meaning in the old adage, and the observance of which let me urge you as a remedy for every degree of evil I advert [sic] to – ‘Have a place for every thing, and keep every thing in its proper place.’”
The Hagerstown Mail, used it in ‘Brother Jonathan’s Wife’s Advice to her Daughter on her Marriage’ in 1841:
“A place for everything and everything in time are good family mottos.”
Frederick Marryat’s in 1842 used it as:
“In a well-conducted man-of-war every thing is in its place, and there is a place for every thing.”
Meaning
This phrase is used when any deal is accepted without checking its pro’s or con’s
Origin
Fraser’s Magazine in 1858 reprinted this phrase from Richard Hill’s Common-place Book 1530:
“When ye proffer the pigge open the poke.”
Meaning
This phrase is used when we have to say that incomplete know how about anything is of no use and such an information is useless.
Origin
No information about its origin is ascertained but some believe that it originated from cobbler’s awls.
Meaning
When we get some information from a secret source, we use this phrase.
Origin
In 1833 Frederick Marryat used this in Peter Simple:
“A little bird has whispered a secret to me.”
Meaning
This phrase is used when we have to say that certain habits and nature can not be changed how hard we try.
Origin
It is taken from the Bible, Jeremiah 13:23 (King James Version):
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”