"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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