Something Our Parents Would Say A Fly In The Ointment

Those old sayings. Who what where when and how? Some of those old sayings are not only ancient but still carry an impact today. A fly in the oinment...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I first arrived inside this forest in November of nineteen
ninety two, and right away I had to know what
is the history of this lay of land, what happened
here and how did it happen? What was the foresight
of what was about to take place? The arrival of humans?
Four stories on Arrow dot Net a r Roe dot Net.
Enjoy the exploration those old saints. You know, idioms, phrases,

(00:24):
the things your family and friends would usually come up
with that came from out of nowhere, and only sometimes
they actually made sense. I mean, they had to start somewhere, right,
who will, where, why, when and how? Some of those
old scenes are not only ancient, but they still carry
a powerful punch even today. I live by one of
those old saints. Winning is a choice. The goal of
these episodes is to help preserve not only a language,

(00:46):
but lessons in life. My name is Arrow. A fly
in the ointment? Wow, that actually comes from the Bible. Yeah,
Ecclesiastes ten to one. Dead flies cause the oint to
send forth a stinking savor. Ointments come from ancient times,
a valuable mixture of oils and perfumes. It was actually

(01:09):
used for healing or anointings. A single dead fly falling
into it spoils the entire batch, making it absolutely useless
because of the foul smell. Over time, a fly in
the ointment became a metaphor, a small defect that ruins
or spoils something once thought to be good, a minor flaw.

(01:30):
My mother used to warn us all the time as teenagers,
you better stay away from those kids. They carry the
scent of a fly in ointment. What what? Oh? Mom?
The funny thing is she was usually right. Even Shakespeare
used the phrase in the sixteen hundreds. There was even
a fly in the ointment, some little impinment that mars all. Now,

(01:52):
if you had never heard of the phrase before, how
do you expect to know that Shakespeare was actually saying something.
In the eighteen hundreds, it was Charles Dickens that put
up his words. It finally became universal in the twentieth
century thanks to being used on a lot of TV
shows during a comedy scene, A fly in the ointment
something our parents would say, My name is Erro