Arroe Collins Something Our Parents Would Say

What are we really saying when we accuse people of things such as cheating? The fox might be smelling his own hole. There's a lot to be said about our fear and how its projected onto others.

Loose cannon. How often did your parents or teacher call your efforts of being you as being a loose cannon? It's history goes all the way back to the 17th century.

Bosses, coworkers, our parents and even ourselves, we've used the phrase over and over again: Learn the ropes. But do we know how it became more than just a walk of life?

We hear it every day. People use it as their excuse to not check in at work or why a project wasn't completed. I'm under the weather. Really? Where did this come from and why is it still trusted even today?

Something so simple and so modern sounding really isn't. Steal my thunder gas a strange but true history and in its own way is a full view of who we are and have experienced in life.

If you ignore the dragon, it will eat you. You'd think this is an ancient lesson. Not so true. It doesn't end there. The dragon plays a huge role in many daily decisions. How are you playing your dragon and what's the history behind it?

It turned its ugly head. Not so new in the world of describing things that feel uncomfortable or out of place. A person place or thing that might have been silent and hidden away until something brings it out and wow...it turned its ugly head.

So popular yet so known. Featured in Monty Python bits and more. She popped her clogs. Before you jump in to locate it's true mystery, take a swing at trying to figure out what such a phrase must mean and how it has survived.

Those things people say. They sound so cool and very up to date when in reality most of what we say is old old old. It's rehashing what our grandparents once said. Such as...bat shit crazy!

Those things we say. So much of it arrived two to three hundred years ago. Yet it seems so new today. One such phrase is don't bite off more than what you can chew. Where does it come from?

Is it used today as much as mom and dad buried us with it? Umm yeah. When pigs fly. What? When a phrase becomes figures at Hallmark you know it's gonna be around a very long time. What does it mean?

We say this stuff pretty much every day without realizing it's got history. This one hails from the pages of my father who endlessly told me how much I don't know shit. Really? One day Dad I'm gonna grow up to host a podcast and we're gonna talk about shit I do know. Ha!

My father endlessly shot this line out every chance he could get, "You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground." Where did it come from and why is something so blunt and shameful still being used?

Tell your story walking. In this age of people talk talk talking with no real message to take in, what's the best way to rid your scene with a pain in the ass self-motivated talker?

Wow! Sounds harsh! Could be our present-day place in history. This phrase has a lengthy journey and meaning coming from ships with sails. It actually has nothing to do with swinging cats.

You need your head examined. Ha! Can we count on our hands the number of times that has been thrown at us? It's got an amazing history and rightfully it wasn't about poking fun at another person.

Although we don't really write physical U.S. mail delivered letters anymore, this phrase continues to live on. Nothing to write home about. It's all-over social media and for some reason we care when years past that handwritten letter would've been trashed.

We always associate to the moon and back to Jackie Gleason from The Honeymooners. Did he or didn't he say it? If not, where did it come from and what's been its total impact?

Those things our parents once said. One of them being, "Life is like riding a bicycle." Where does it come from? Has it always been a metaphor? Who was it for?

Those things our parents would say. One that once popped up a lot in the lives of young adults was the infamous birds and the bees.

Every week someone we know toys around with this as a way of gaining not only attention but control, "I wrote the book on this."

He's a leak in the attic. Meaning a person isn't all there. A decision that didn't pay off correctly or any other issue that requires the mind to generate movement forward. Not so popular today because of not being very politically correct.

Friends have said it and trust me teachers and principals wanted to, "Don't give me your sack of shit." Where does it come from and who put it into our daily speak?

I can hear my dad's WWII military driven voice even today, "Keep your cotton pickin hands off my..." I'm not sure he would get away with saying it today. Why?

This one goes all the way back to 1512! Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Funny how something in Germany found its way around the world and the centuries required to make it possible.

Those crazy insane things people say. Most of us remember hearing it first from our parents. This week? Have you lost your marbles?

A captain goes down with his ship. Really? At one time maybe. But where does this term or phrase come from and have we abided by the rules?

I can hear my dad over and over, "Son! Shit or get off the pot!" When Dad was ready to go, he wanted his enter family to be ready on his time. Where does it come from? How has it impact us? Shit or get off the pot.

What the bubkis? It's really used and has been in our daily language since the early 19th century. How is it used and can it become outdated?

Endlessly as a child my father and grandparents used the term shit for brains. Research says it was part of their everyday street! What? How?

Not my monkey not my circus. It dates all the way back to Poland with their endless amount of traveling circuses. It wasn't out of control ticket holders. It was the monkeys!

The cut of your jib? How are you putting on display your sails? What's guiding you? How is the cut of your jib?

Shooting from the hip. From the early 20th century but how did it make it to the present and how much does it effect our everyday?

Everyday street speak and its history. This week the focus is put on shit a brick.

The old sayings had to start somewhere. Who, what, where and why? Such as flying by the seat of your pants.

There are so many phrases and saying being used every day all over the world. The shocking part is how most of them weren't created in our time. Making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Oh those words our parents would say and oh how we are using them with our families today. This week we enter the world of cursive language. Let that be a warning. The focus is on fucking shit. Get that "fucking shit" out of here. Whoa you have a lot of fucking shit. When did this all start?

Those things that our parents say such as, "Speak of the devil." Who what where why and when did it come into play? What does it mean and are we using it correctly?

Those things people tend to share that come from out of nowhere. I'm not so sure on this one, " A storm in a teacup."

Something that started long before it became the national lingo. Turkey talk! Who started it and how has it evolved? Any way we can go cold turkey?