38 Cool Origin Stories to Everyday Sayings

1.

The apple of my eye

2.

Hold a candle to

3.

Chow down

4.

Come up trumps

5.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

6.

Hair of the dog that bit you

7.

A sight for sore eyes

8.

A stones throw

9.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

10.

The Acid Test

11.

Cool as a cucumber

12.

Busy as a bee

13.

Bring home the bacon

14.

A baker’s dozen

15.

Barking mad

16.

Bee in your bonnet

17.

Beat around the bush

18.

Two peas in a pod

19.

Born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth

20.

A man after my own heart

21.

Cut of your jib

22.

Frog in the throat

23.

Fools rush in

24.

Fly off the handle

25.

Fly by the seat of your pants

26.

Beating (or flogging) a dead horse

27.

Gee Whiz

28.

Wide Berth

29.

Go down like a lead balloon

30.

Goody two shoes

31.

Green-eyed monster

32.

Saved by the bell

33.

Dead ringer

34.

In Spades

35.

In stitches

36.

Keeping up with the Joneses

37.

Gadzooks

38.

Mad as a hatter