Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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- Here are 11 great expressions that are very old some of them more than a 1000 years old. For each idiom there will be an example of usage and a look at the history. + there is a bonus expression at the end.

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00:00 The Story
00:41 Make no bones about something
02:22 Sink or swim
03:49 To curry favour
05:47 Child's play
06:27 A Baker's dozen
07:40 Scot free
08:58 Apple of my eye
10:14 Throw down the gauntlet
11:34 A nest egg
13:27 Woe betide
14:51 Red letter day
15:33 The bonus expression