Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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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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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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