Origin story + a personal pit stop: In ’85 at Prairie Hill (South Beloit, IL) I became “Flash” for washroom sprints—speed, not that kind of flash. Got a school nickname with a weird origin?
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A blue moon isn’t really blue, but it refers to the rare occurrence of two full moons in a single month.
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The phrase "stiff upper lip" which is so quintessentialy English, is an Americanism. It first appeared in print in 1815 in the magazine Massachusetts Spy. It appears in Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. Only in the 1870s did it start to really gain ground in England. #PhraseOrigins #Linguistics #Etymology
