phrases

2020 has been quite a year, to say the least, and everyone has had to adjust to new realities. One thing that is for sure, is that we're saying things now that would have made no sense if we'd have said them in 2019, which goes to show how much things can change in six months. Check out these tweets about things we might have said in the past six months, that had we said them back in 2019 (which seems so long ago), people would have looked at us like we were crazy. 

We never really thought about the history behind these common phrases but turns out to be more interested than we expected! The more you know! 

"Thanks in advance", "Looking forward to hearing from you"...apparently, these so-called polite phrases have all different meaning

Writer Andy Kelly (@ultrabrilliant) asked which pieces of dialogue from pop culture had made their ways into people's everyday conversations. There was no shortage of replies.

We all say these phrases and we know what they mean, but how did it come down to this phrase? Why do we say things like rub the wrong way, and to butter someone up? Well, here are some phrases you know and how it happened.