Something Our Parents Would Say Know Your Onions

Something our parents would say. Most of what we speak today has a huge connection to our past. This week know your onions.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Those old saints, phrases, idioms, you know, those things your
family and friends would usually come up with that came
from out of nowhere, and only sometimes they actually made sense. Well,

(00:22):
they had to start somewhere, right, Who, what, where, why,
when and how. Some of those old saints are not
only ancient, but still carry a powerful punch even today,
for instance, like the saying that I live by every
single day winning is a choice. The goal of these
episodes is to help preserve not only a language, but
lessons in life. My name is Harrow. Know Your Onions,

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being that it originates from the early twentieth century, points
directly at the American farmers, ranchers, and homesteaders who lived
on Mother Earth. They relied on the planet to give
them those sweet apps from the soil. And if you
know your onions, you know none of them are the same.
Know Your Onions was first recorded in public in nineteen

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oh eight in a poem describing an experience with a horse.
It didn't appear again until nineteen twenty two in a
Harper's Bizarre story based on someone who truly knows their stuff,
they know their onions. The French say it was a
clean version of someone saying know your ass. Well, they
know their onions. Then it makes you wonder if oc

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White in nineteen oh eight, while writing the poem about
a horse, knew that his horse actually had the strength
to figure stuff out. Here's the twist. In the eighteen forties,
which is much much earlier, the educational system cut up
onions to teach kids how to use the power of coins,
the bigger coins versus the smaller coins. Now sniff your fingers. Ooh.

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Then comes Thomas Talbot's onions. He is credited for taking
the phrase to a bigger crowd. But here's the thing,
there is no proven history. Therefore mister Thomas Talbot doesn't
get credit. Hmmm, well, no ur onions then right, I'm arrow,
and that's something our parents would say.