November 24, 2025 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's Lucky Dip turn your podcast that is short and
sharp and cute. It's Mail and Monday. Hello, Hello, good a,
get a everyone. Thanks for listening in whatever you're up
to wherever you are.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I love that you choose to listen to the pod.
Yeah we do, Thank you, Thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So Lucky Dip is where one of us take charge,
put our hand in the Lucky Dip bucket and pull
out a topic. What do you got today, mail?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah we do. Okay, So I love words. I love
you do. I do you know? I think the word
is like when you're trying to find out what, like
how a word became a word, it's called etymology. So
the etymology the word to help. But yeah, yeah, so
that's such a big word too. I wish I could
use bigger words, just slip.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
One in every now and then.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, well I mean you could.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
No, I don't know them and I'm not confident enough
to use them. When I noticed somebody use as a
word that I wouldn't normally use, I'm like, that's very impressive.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Ah nah, they just look at the dictionary anyway. But
I went down this rabbit hole the other day of
common sayings and where they come from. Okay, this isn't
a saying, this is a word, but this is so good. Okay.
So back in the olden days in Italy, right, people
(01:24):
were getting really sick with these flu like symptoms, especially
in areas that had like like swampy areas that had
like bits of stagnant water e.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Colei.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
No. But so people were getting these flu like symptoms.
Some people were dying, and obviously there was a smell.
You know, that's water, right, So the Italians were like, oh,
it's the smell, and they thought, oh, people were dying
from bad air. Right now, if you were to say
(01:56):
bad air in Italian, you'd say malaria. Right. The time
passes and they find out the reason people are getting
sick is not because of the air. It's because mosquitoes
hang out yeah, in those you know, like where that
stagnant water is and stuff. And that's where the word
(02:17):
malaria comes from. Yeah, right, it's bad air malaria ahaa.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So if I see somebody with malaria from now, and
I'm going to correct them and go, it's malaria.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know it's actually malaria. It'salian word. I think you'll
say that one day it literally means bad air, yeah, yeah, anyway,
or sick air anyway. Back in the very very olden days,
when someone would leave to go somewhere, whether they were
going to travel for work or they were relocating or whatever,
you know, you couldn't just people corresponded with letters or whatever.
(02:50):
But it wasn't like we're talking like even you know,
before phones or a thing. Right, So you were saying,
oh see you Katie, well, I mean, I hope you
get there safe. Here we arrived, oh my god. Yes.
So there was a farewell that they would say and
they would say God be with yay, like not like Kanye,
(03:13):
but spelled like that ye or God be with ye yay.
I don't know. But over time, you know, things shorten
and so it went to god by as in the
B was for the be with, and then the ye
on the end was yay as in you yeah, yay whatever.
(03:35):
Then that got contracted again to goodbye, and that's how
we started saying goodbye. Oh no, I know, I know, Okay.
Before anesthetic was a thing, particularly in war times, people
had to like endure medical procedures without or they give
them some alcohol or whatever. Anyway, but especially during war
(04:00):
and you think of like amputations. Yeah, I can't, right,
And they're just in the field there, and they're like,
to get this guy through, we're just gonna have to
fucking cut that leg off. To stop them from screaming,
and also to stop them from potentially biting their tongues off,
they would give them a bullet to bite down on them.
And that's where bite the bullet comes from. Yes, isn't
(04:23):
that so good and so horrendous.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So horrendous, so horrendous, bite the bullet. So bite the
bullet to me is like, just do it. I'm biting
a bullet, and do it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Just rip off the band aid.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And I guess for them, how many times they would
have said, just fucking cut the leg off, just do it. Oh,
don't give him a bullet. Uck. Okay. Back in medieval times,
when rich people would go out hunting for like game
birds like you know, I guess, like turkeys and shit,
they would hire people to go in before them into
like the vegetation and shrubbery and stuff to scare the
(04:56):
birds in order to draw them out. So they used
to sort of like go with these little flappy things
and disrupt the shrubbery so the birds would run out
and then they could be killed. These people were called beaters,
and that's where the term beating around the bush comes from. No,
isn't it so good?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Like is it? I'm f fascinating because you never think
where things come from. You just say them and then
you're like, hold, and they all have to have an origin.
So beating around the bush is like, don't bullshit though,
stop beating around the bush?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well yeah, or stop like talking like I do all
the time, like just going in circles, yeah, goldering, just
get it out, get it out, get it done with. Yeah, okay, yeah, okay.
Farmers who used to collect eggs back in the day
would leave one egg in the nest to encourage the
chickens to return and continue laying in that same nest.
(05:50):
So by the fourteenth century, which was a really long
time ago, the phrase nest egg was starting to be
used in a financial of leaving something in the nest.
I know, I know, I know. Just there is no
(06:11):
way you're not going to tell someone one of these
one day the next time someone says stop beating around
the bush, as if you're not going to say, oh
my god, do you know where that comes from yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Know, because this is the kind of dumb shit that
sticks in our mind too.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I know, I know, I've got one last one. Yes.
So in the olden days, medieval markets, a lot of
the people that had stalls, you know, they'd be selling livestock,
like you know, pigs and whatever, and they would show
the potential buyer the produce. So they'd pick up babe
or whatever and go, here's this piglet and he'll go, yep, great,
(06:45):
I'll have one of those. And what they would do
is they will sort of go under the counter, put
the animal in a bag and like hand it over.
But a lot of the time the person would get
home and they'd open the bag and it wasn't a
piglet at all. It was like a cat. And the
person had taken the money for the pig like charge
primo price, right, And so that became the origin of
(07:08):
the saying letting the cat out of the bag bag
because and people then started checking before you know, when
you're in the McDonald's drive through caes I'm going to
check that they've got there's enough fries in there.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah I get home, Yeah, so you let the cat
out of the bag.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Now these were good.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I like hearing all of that. Yeah, it's fascinating, isn't it.
Because every single word that we have is adapted from
something or there's a story behind it. Lots of Latin,
you know, even you know vox pop, like you know,
going on the street and.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Asking people questions with them. That's like a Latin word
called like vox popular or something which means word of
the people.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh, no, way, look at you. Really smart?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
No, I'm not smart. I just take in worthless things
and remove important ones.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Well, it's good that we have a podcast. It's all
about speaking shit, so at least.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You've got people to share it with. Yeah, true, true.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
All right, we're out of here. Thank you as usual
for the listening choosing our podcast. If you give us
a rating or a comment wherever you listen to your
potty share it with your friend, that would be grand,
very helpful for us. But we'll chat to you soon.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I love you.
It's Lucky Dip turn your podcast that is short and
sharp and cute. It's Mail and Monday. Hello, Hello, good a,
get a everyone. Thanks for listening in whatever you're up
to wherever you are.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I love that you choose to listen to the pod.
Yeah we do, Thank you, Thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So Lucky Dip is where one of us take charge,
put our hand in the Lucky Dip bucket and pull
out a topic. What do you got today, mail?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah we do. Okay, So I love words. I love
you do. I do you know? I think the word
is like when you're trying to find out what, like
how a word became a word, it's called etymology. So
the etymology the word to help. But yeah, yeah, so
that's such a big word too. I wish I could
use bigger words, just slip.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
One in every now and then.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, well I mean you could.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
No, I don't know them and I'm not confident enough
to use them. When I noticed somebody use as a
word that I wouldn't normally use, I'm like, that's very impressive.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Ah nah, they just look at the dictionary anyway. But
I went down this rabbit hole the other day of
common sayings and where they come from. Okay, this isn't
a saying, this is a word, but this is so good. Okay.
So back in the olden days in Italy, right, people
(01:24):
were getting really sick with these flu like symptoms, especially
in areas that had like like swampy areas that had
like bits of stagnant water e.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Colei.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
No. But so people were getting these flu like symptoms.
Some people were dying, and obviously there was a smell.
You know, that's water, right, So the Italians were like, oh,
it's the smell, and they thought, oh, people were dying
from bad air. Right now, if you were to say
(01:56):
bad air in Italian, you'd say malaria. Right. The time
passes and they find out the reason people are getting
sick is not because of the air. It's because mosquitoes
hang out yeah, in those you know, like where that
stagnant water is and stuff. And that's where the word
(02:17):
malaria comes from. Yeah, right, it's bad air malaria ahaa.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So if I see somebody with malaria from now, and
I'm going to correct them and go, it's malaria.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know it's actually malaria. It'salian word. I think you'll
say that one day it literally means bad air, yeah, yeah, anyway,
or sick air anyway. Back in the very very olden days,
when someone would leave to go somewhere, whether they were
going to travel for work or they were relocating or whatever,
you know, you couldn't just people corresponded with letters or whatever.
(02:50):
But it wasn't like we're talking like even you know,
before phones or a thing. Right, So you were saying,
oh see you Katie, well, I mean, I hope you
get there safe. Here we arrived, oh my god. Yes.
So there was a farewell that they would say and
they would say God be with yay, like not like Kanye,
(03:13):
but spelled like that ye or God be with ye yay.
I don't know. But over time, you know, things shorten
and so it went to god by as in the
B was for the be with, and then the ye
on the end was yay as in you yeah, yay whatever.
(03:35):
Then that got contracted again to goodbye, and that's how
we started saying goodbye. Oh no, I know, I know, Okay.
Before anesthetic was a thing, particularly in war times, people
had to like endure medical procedures without or they give
them some alcohol or whatever. Anyway, but especially during war
(04:00):
and you think of like amputations. Yeah, I can't, right,
And they're just in the field there, and they're like,
to get this guy through, we're just gonna have to
fucking cut that leg off. To stop them from screaming,
and also to stop them from potentially biting their tongues off,
they would give them a bullet to bite down on them.
And that's where bite the bullet comes from. Yes, isn't
(04:23):
that so good and so horrendous.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So horrendous, so horrendous, bite the bullet. So bite the
bullet to me is like, just do it. I'm biting
a bullet, and do it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Just rip off the band aid.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And I guess for them, how many times they would
have said, just fucking cut the leg off, just do it. Oh,
don't give him a bullet. Uck. Okay. Back in medieval times,
when rich people would go out hunting for like game
birds like you know, I guess, like turkeys and shit,
they would hire people to go in before them into
like the vegetation and shrubbery and stuff to scare the
(04:56):
birds in order to draw them out. So they used
to sort of like go with these little flappy things
and disrupt the shrubbery so the birds would run out
and then they could be killed. These people were called beaters,
and that's where the term beating around the bush comes from. No,
isn't it so good?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Like is it? I'm f fascinating because you never think
where things come from. You just say them and then
you're like, hold, and they all have to have an origin.
So beating around the bush is like, don't bullshit though,
stop beating around the bush?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well yeah, or stop like talking like I do all
the time, like just going in circles, yeah, goldering, just
get it out, get it out, get it done with. Yeah, okay, yeah, okay.
Farmers who used to collect eggs back in the day
would leave one egg in the nest to encourage the
chickens to return and continue laying in that same nest.
(05:50):
So by the fourteenth century, which was a really long
time ago, the phrase nest egg was starting to be
used in a financial of leaving something in the nest.
I know, I know, I know. Just there is no
(06:11):
way you're not going to tell someone one of these
one day the next time someone says stop beating around
the bush, as if you're not going to say, oh
my god, do you know where that comes from yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Know, because this is the kind of dumb shit that
sticks in our mind too.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I know, I know, I've got one last one. Yes.
So in the olden days, medieval markets, a lot of
the people that had stalls, you know, they'd be selling livestock,
like you know, pigs and whatever, and they would show
the potential buyer the produce. So they'd pick up babe
or whatever and go, here's this piglet and he'll go, yep, great,
(06:45):
I'll have one of those. And what they would do
is they will sort of go under the counter, put
the animal in a bag and like hand it over.
But a lot of the time the person would get
home and they'd open the bag and it wasn't a
piglet at all. It was like a cat. And the
person had taken the money for the pig like charge
primo price, right, And so that became the origin of
(07:08):
the saying letting the cat out of the bag bag
because and people then started checking before you know, when
you're in the McDonald's drive through caes I'm going to
check that they've got there's enough fries in there.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah I get home, Yeah, so you let the cat
out of the bag.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Now these were good.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I like hearing all of that. Yeah, it's fascinating, isn't it.
Because every single word that we have is adapted from
something or there's a story behind it. Lots of Latin,
you know, even you know vox pop, like you know,
going on the street and.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Asking people questions with them. That's like a Latin word
called like vox popular or something which means word of
the people.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh, no, way, look at you. Really smart?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
No, I'm not smart. I just take in worthless things
and remove important ones.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Well, it's good that we have a podcast. It's all
about speaking shit, so at least.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You've got people to share it with. Yeah, true, true.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
All right, we're out of here. Thank you as usual
for the listening choosing our podcast. If you give us
a rating or a comment wherever you listen to your
potty share it with your friend, that would be grand,
very helpful for us. But we'll chat to you soon.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I love you.
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