Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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- I got it wrong. I made a video a few years ago about the history of an English idiom. It's so for got 102,000 views but it's BS. I'm sorry. It turns out I'm not the only one. A lot of idiom origin stories are false. In this video I investigate.

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00:00 Is it ok to beat up your wife?
01:46 Idiom 1
06:30 Idiom 2
09:57 Idiom 3
13:00 BS word origin
13:43 Idiom 4
16:47 Idiom 5